There are more than 300,000 women undergraduate students nationwide who belong to sororities. At some colleges a large percentage of all women students join these organizations.
According to rankings by U.S. News & World Report, Welch College in Nashville, Tennessee, has the highest percentage of sorority membership. There are only about 135 women on campus but 98 percent of them are members of a sorority. At Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas, 90 percent of the women students are sorority members. Following is a list of the other schools in the top ten nationwide in their percentage of women students who are sorority members.
3. Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi (86%)
4. Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan (79%)
5. Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia (79%)
6. York College, York, Nebraska (70%)
7. Sewanee-University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee (69%)
8. DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, (63%)
9. Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi (56%)
10. Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina (55%)