General Fraternity

Sigma Chi was founded on the Miami University (Ohio) campus on June 28, 1855 by seven men.  Our founding resulted from an injustice incurred upon six of the seven founders as junior members in another fraternity, where they were instructed to do something that they did not agree with.

They felt that principles they professed were imperfectly realized by any other college fraternity, and therefore established their own: Sigma Chi.  From our beginning, the Fraternity has been based upon the high ideals of Friendship, Justice & Learning.

For over 150 years, Sigma Chi has continued to recruit, pledge, train, and initiate those men who possess distinctively noble ideals.  And since our beginning, membership has grown to over 295,000 members and over 380 undergraduate and alumni chapters around the world.