Lead. Learn. Serve. Three simple words that sum up over 135 years of Ohio State history. Sororities and fraternities at Ohio State are virtually as old as the university itself and ever since their inception in 1874, have been working to set the standard for what leadership, learning, and service should look like in the collegiate setting.
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Ohio State's 60+ fraternal organizations - while diverse in their own distinctive ways - all have one consistent purpose: we exist to enhance the leadership, learning, and service that occur within our Buckeye community and to challenge our members to live a life of responsible values-based citizenship. Brotherhood and sisterhood - the foundation of our organizations - is the agent through which undergraduate students have the immeasurable opportunity to learn how to hold peers accountable to higher standards.
We believe that there are very few opportunities on a college campus that provide undergraduate students with the holistic opportunity that sorority and fraternity life offers. The process of making a life-long oath to your chapter to live by its professed values - values of leadership, learning, and service - can be one of the most powerful experiences a young man or woman can have.
We know that making such a decision though is not one to be taken lightly, and thus, we invite you to sit back, and see for yourself why these three words are so important for our community. Watch and listen, as you hear from some of our very own, what their experiences mean to them.
Community At-A-Glance
- Number of Chapters: 60+
- Size of community: 7% of the Ohio State student body
- Requirement for joining: 2.5 cumulative GPA and 12 college credit hours
- Number of full-time university staff working with community: 3
- Number of chapters receiving national awards: 24
- Number of programs focused around issues of Safety, Health and Wellness the community attended last year: 183
- Number of programs focused around issues of Social Identity or diversity the community sponsored last year: 73
- Number of students attending a sorority/fraternity leadership development program last year: 949
- Name of comprehensive standards program that all chapters must participate in: Standards of Excellence
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