Fraternities and sororities

While the terms "fraternity" and "sorority" may be used to describe any number of social and charitable organizations, including the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, International, and the Shriners, in the United States and Canada fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations of higher education students (though there are organizations like fraternities in other countries as well; for example, the German Student Corps). Fraternities are all-male or mixed-sex; the female-only equivalent is called a sorority, a word coined by Gamma Phi Beta in 1874. Consequently, there exist some all-female fraternities which were named before this, such as Kappa Alpha Theta, founded in 1870. Fraternities and sororities are also referred to as student corporations or academic corporations, or simply corporations.

Fraternities and sororities outside North America

Europe

• Corps Lusatia, oldest Studentenverbindung in Saxonia, since 1807 http://www.corps-lusatia.de
• Konwent Polonia the oldest in Poland, since 1828
• K!Arkonia the second oldest in Poland, since 1879
• K!Welecja the third oldest in Poland, since 1883
• K.A.V. Lovania Leuven 1896
• Korp! Vironia 1900
• Korp! Fraternitas Estica 1907
• Korp! Sakala 1909
• Korp! Revelia 1920
• Korp! Neo-Lithuania 1922
• Studentenverbindung

The Philippines

• ΑΦΩ — Alpha Phi Omega of the Philippines
• ΑΣΦ — Alpha Sigma Phi Philippines
• ΧΣΨ — Chi Sigma Psi - founded at Digos City, Philippines.
• ΥΣΦ — Upsilon Sigma Phi of the University of the Philippines
• Fraternitas Aquilae Legis - Ateneo Law School
• ΤΓΦ — Tau Gamma Phi of the Philippines