Hello Parents! The Interfraternity Council helps to make sure that your child has the best experience possible with fraternity life on campus. Please use the side links to find out more information about fraternity life here at Purdue. If you have any other questions please feel free to contact our President or Recruitment Director


Interesting Greek Facts

  • All but two US Presidents since 1825 have been fraternity men.
  • Over 75% of US Congress members were in fraternities or sororities
  • Over 85% of Fortune 500 executives are Greek
  • Since 1910, 85% of Supreme Court Justices have been Greek
  • More than 7 million men and women in the US and Canada are Greek
  • Greeks make up 3% of the population in the US
  • 71% of Greeks graduate while only 50% of Non-Greeks graduate from college
  • of the nation's 50 largest corporations, 43 are headed by Greeks
  • 76% of the US Senate is Greek
  • Three Canadian Prime Ministers have been Greek
  • Over 85% of the student leaders on 730 college campuses are members of the Greek Community
  • There are more than 7,000 chapters at over 800 campuses in the United States and Canada with over 500,000 undergraduate members
  • The entire Greek-letter system has over 20,000 chapters
  • Seven out of ten people listed in "Who's Who in America " are Greek
  • 63% of all Cabinet members since the year 1900 have been Greek
  • The overall Greek GPA is higher than the overall collegiate GPA in the US
  • Both women elected to the Supreme Court were in a sorority
  • The sorority women's GPA at Purdue is higher than the All-Women's Average at Purdue
  • 17 Fraternities were above the All-Men's Average at Purdue
  • The All-Fraternity Average GPA has increased 125% over the past 7 years
  • Each fraternity and sorority host at least one philanthropy a year

Famous Greeks 

Athletes
Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, John Elway, Shaquille O'Neal, Jim Everett, John Wooden, Tommy LaSorda, Arthur Ashe, Jim Edmonds, Orel Herschiser, Jack Nicklaus, Cobi Jones, Troy Aikmen, Tiger Woods, Kerri Strug, Lou Gehrig, Gayle Sayers, Payne Stewart, Curtis Strange, Matt Suhey, Bob Griese

Entertainers
Kristie Alley, Candice Bergen, Jimmy Buffet, Dixie Carter, Bill Cosby, Kevin Costner, James Dean, Bob Dylan, Harrison Ford, Kathie Lee Gifford, Amy Grant, David Letterman, Paul Newman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brad Pitt, Elvis Presley, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, John Wayne, Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Garner, Sheryl Crowe, Jewell, Steven Spielberg

Politicians
Martin Luther King, Jr., George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Sandra Day O'Connor, Jesse Jackson, Jack Kemp, Harry S. Truman, Madelyn Albright, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Kassebaum, Maurine Neuberger

Others
Barbara Bush, Robert Frost, Lee Iococca, Linda Byrd Johnson, Joan Lunden, Debora Norville, Georgia O'Keefe, George Patton, Jane Pauley, Marilyn Quayle, Kate Spade