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NIC Fact Sheet
- There are more men in American college fraternities now than at any other time in their existence, since Phi Beta Kappa was formed at the College of William and Mary in 1776.
- Nearly four and one half million are members including more than 350,000 collegians on campuses throughout the United States and Canada.
- 69 NIC member fraternities have over 5,300 chapters and 405 colonies at over 800 colleges and universities.
- Growth: Since fraternities were recognized following World War II, there have been more chapters each year than existed the year before.
- “The American college fraternity is an American institution and the chapter in the form it ideally exists on the college campus is a miniature of the larger American democracy...The fraternity group is formed by mutual selection, based on congeniality and common purpose. Here the young member learns, perhaps for the first time, to submit to the will of the majority and to shape his own conduct by the interests and standards of the others with whom he lives. In assuming his share of work in the group, he develops a sense of responsibility for the well-being of something outside himself. He is merged with the group; must work with and for it; must fight to emerge as a leader who will direct it. He learns the great lesson of subordinating self and selfish desires for the good of others. He thus learns to lend his strength to those who have less, thus fulfilling an educational goal than which there is no higher...”
-Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities, Bicentennial Edition.
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