12 of The Best Sororities and Fraternities in TV and Movies

Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is a Delta Nu legend. She ran a tight ship as president of the sorority and knew how to engage her sisters and was an all-around effective leader. While many people scoffed when the fashion merchandising student set her mind on going to Harvard Law School, her sorority sisters weren’t the least bit surprised when she got in. Woods did the Delta Nu’s proud by working hard, keeping a positive attitude, and using her fashion sense to help solve a murder.

When Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) enroll at Monsters University, they are quickly smitten with college life and the Greek organizations on campus and with names like Roar Omega Roar (RΩR) and Slugma Slugma Kappa (EEK), can you blame them? They quickly find a home at with the ragtag and good-natured brothers of Oozma Kappa (OK). Mike and Sully bond with the band of misfits and soon help them make it through Monster U’s Scaring Program and earn a spot in the annual Scare Games.

The beloved ABC Family series was set at the fictitious Ohio school, Cyprus-Rhodes University (CRU). Spencer Grammer starred as Casey Cartwright, who is trying to balance life in a sorority, her final years at college, her love life, and helping her kinda nerdy little brother Rusty (Jacob Zachar) navigate the Greek system. Luckily her Zeta Beta Zeta sisters were there to help her through it all.

What’s not to love about a re-telling of the Snow White story set in a sorority? When Sydney White (Amanda Bynes) arrives at Southern Atlantic University, all she wants to do is join her belated mother’s sorority. However, her mother’s sorority house has been taken over by an evil witch of a president, Rachel Witchburn (Sara Paxton) who banishes to the house of the “seven dorks”. Rachel’s scheming doesn’t end there, though, and soon Sydney has to team up with her housemates to save their home, the school, and maybe find love along the way.

The Barden Bellas weren’t specifically part of the Greek system, but the acapella singing group acted like a sorority—they recruited members, there was an intense, candle-lit initiation, they wore matching outfits for special occasions, had their own lingo, and they put the good of their group and their sisterhood first. When trouble hit and the Acapella Collegiate Organization pulled them from their tour and stripped them of their title, they stuck together, and came out on top with style.

DJ (Columbus Short) leaves Los Angeles to attend Atlanta’s fictional Truth University. At first he struggles to fit in on campus, but when everyone sees his impressive dance moves, he soon finds himself as the hottest commodity on campus. Rival fraternities battle it out to get him to join so they can have him on their team in the upcoming dance competition. Dancing just might be DJ’s second love, though, as he pursues April (Meagan Good), despite the fact that she already has a boyfriend. Of course, her boyfriend’s dance moves can’t hold a candle to DJ’s swagger.

Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) have the perfect little home for their growing family, but that all changes when the Delta Psi Beta fraternity moves in next door and throws all-night ragers. They try to make friends with the frat brothers and their president Teddy (Zac Efron), but it quickly erupts into a full-scale prank war. They eventually reach a détente, which is useful in Neighbors 2 when the Kappa Nu sorority moves in and threatens the sale of their home. The Radners only hope is Teddy.

Katie (Lucy Hale) and Sara (Phoebe Strole) have been BFFs since childhood, so of course they both want to be in the same sorority, Delta, which just so happened to be founded by Katie’s mother (Courtney Thorne-Smith). The battle begins after a disastrous pledge week that left Sara as a Delta, while Katie joined the rival Kappa house. Needless to say, Katie’s mother is not happy about the turn of events and a full-blown war erupts on campus as the sororities vie for the Tri-Crown Prize.

When misogynist frat boys Dave (Barry Watson), Adam (Michael Rosenbaum), and Doofer (Harland Williams) find themselves accused of a crime and expelled from their frat house, they decide their only option to stay on campus is to —wait for it—join a sorority. They roll up to Delta Omicron Gamma (or D.O.G.) as Daisy, Adena, and Roberta eager to join a sorority and just maybe find the real criminals and something about themselves, too. This movie is best viewed as a prequel to the Tom Hanks sitcom Bosom Buddies.

When a group of men hit the sweet spot between mid-life crises and failed relationships they realize there is only one option—start a fraternity and re-live their glory days. Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, and Vince Vaughn star as the full-grown adults who throwdown with college kids at their newly-formed frat house, aggravating the college’s dean (Jeremy Piven). After a series of wild parties, the dean exacts his revenge and, as per usual, the frat must band together or risk expulsion or, worse, being forced to go back to their real adult lives.

Would any story about Greek life be complete without a nod to the granddaddy of all frat films Animal House? Nope! The men of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity set the bar very high (or perhaps, low) with their infamously debauched parties. They have no problem being on double secret probation or plotting to ruin the homecoming parade or destroying their house on a nightly basis in the name of a good time. All they want is to have fun, fun, fun and maybe save their house from getting its charter revoked.