How to Join Chi Omega

Interested in joining Chi Omega?

Every year, thousands of women join Chi Omega, the largest fraternal women’s organization with 181 collegiate chapters and over 380,000 initiates. Membership in Chi Omega provides lifelong friendships, campus and community involvement, and countless opportunities for personal growth and development in college and beyond. Chi Omega offers a home in your new college environment and a place where you can make a difference and thrive!

In order to become a member of Chi Omega, you will need to participate in recruitment on your college campus.

Our Fraternity’s vast network of alumnae plays a critical role in providing information so that Chi Omega and young women can learn about each other, and we now offer multiple pathways to introduction. Click below to learn more!

Chi Omega Legacy: Chi Omega defines a legacy as a sister or a daughter of a Chi Omega in good standing. Granddaughters, cousins, and nieces of Chi Omegas have close ties but are not Chi Omega legacies. Being designated as a Chi Omega legacy does not guarantee membership in Chi Omega. Chi Omega collegiate chapters set their own legacy policies according to the number of invites allowed by their campus panhellenic.
For Collegiate Members: Collegiate letter of Introduction, As a collegiate Sister, you offer a unique connection to your peers looking to join Chi Omega and play a key role in introducing us to PNMs.
For Potential New Members (PNM): The PNM Interest Form: PNM, if you have searched high and low and can’t find a Chi Omega to connect with, please click here.
For Alumnae: Recruitment Introduction Form (RIF): As a Chi Omega alumna, it is an honor to be asked to provide a Recruitment Introduction Form (RIF). You are the key to connecting Chi Omega to women in your community. Seek these women out and share with them what Chi Omega has meant to you and how it has benefitted your life.

Once you’ve identified these women, there are two versions of our RIF form: the online version and the paper version. Please log in to Everyday for both versions of the form with instructions. You may contact the Executive Headquarters for login help or RIF questions at 901.748.8600 or chiomega@chiomega.com.

The online version of the form is submitted immediately to the local collegiate and alumnae leaders. It is the most efficient way to introduce a woman for membership. For Sisters without internet access, feel free to call Chi Omega Executive Headquarters at 901.748.8600.

If you prefer to mail a hard copy RIF form, you can locate address information for the appropriate recruitment volunteers by visiting Everyday. Once logged in, click on the link “Find Recruitment Contacts” to locate recruitment volunteers by state.

Joining Chi Omega in Light of COVID-19

Chi Omega recognizes that many students are understandably concerned about what joining a sorority could look like for them. Below are some questions you may have regarding the sorority membership experience and what Chi Omega is doing to ensure the welfare of every Sister is ‘ever at heart’.

Click here for FAQs on joining in the time of COVID-19.

There is a Chi Omega chapter on my campus. How do I join?

In order to become a member of Chi Omega, you will need to participate in recruitment on your college campus.

As a member of the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), Chi Omega may participate in any of these four recruitment styles:

Fully Structured Recruitment
Partially Structured Recruitment
Minimally Structured Recruitment
Continuous Recruitment

In light of current COVID-19 precautions, universities may be adjusting their recruitment process. We encourage you to reach out to the Office of Student Life or the Office of Fraternity and Sorority life on your campus to learn how to register for sorority recruitment.

Chi Omega Chapters Across the Nation

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Iota Mu | Quinnipiac University | Hamden, Connecticut
Kappa Mu | Sacred Heart University | Fairfield, Connecticut

Delaware

Rho Lambda | University of Delaware | Newark, Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Eta Beta | Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa
Psi Beta | University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Xi Beta | University of Maine | Orono, Maine

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Pi Beta | University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Sigma Beta | Montana State University | Bozeman, Montana

Nebraska

Kappa | University of Nebraska – Lincoln | Lincoln, Nebraska
Zeta Delta | University of Nebraska – Omaha | Elkhorn, Nebraska

New Hampshire

Mu Alpha | University of New Hampshire | Durham, New Hampshire

New Mexico

New York

Epsilon Kappa | St. Lawrence University | Canton, New York
Xi Mu | University of Rochester | Rochester, New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Eta Alpha | Oregon State University | Corvallis, Oregon
Psi Alpha | University of Oregon | Eugene, Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Lambda Beta | University of Rhode Island | Kingston, Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Xi Theta | South Dakota State University | Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Xi Alpha | University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah

Virginia

Washington

Alpha | University of Washington | Seattle, Washington
Beta Beta | Washington State University | Pullman, Washington

Washington D.C.

Eta Lambda | American University | Washington, D.C.
Phi Alpha | The George Washington University | Washington, D.C.

Wyoming

Psi Delta | University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming

Wisconsin

There is not a Chi Omega chapter on my campus. How does one get started?

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Chi Omega chapters are founded through a process called “extension.” Extension is the addition of a National Panhellenic Conference chapter to the Panhellenic community on a college or university campus, or the establishment of a fraternity/sorority community on a campus where previously none had existed.

Since its founding, Chi Omega has sought national growth, offering the Chi Omega experience to outstanding young women from coast to coast. Chi Omega receives inquiries about extension from university Panhellenic associations, local sororities seeking national affiliation, individual students, and alumnae. Chi Omega carefully considers each opportunity, does research, and chooses thoughtfully what is best for the Fraternity at the time.

The NPC Extension Committee will assist any campus wishing to add a NPC chapter or establish a Panhellenic system or any local sorority wishing to affiliate with a national organization. To contact NPC and learn more go to their website.

Contact Chi Omega

Chi Omega Fraternity
3395 Players Club Parkway
Memphis, TN 38125
Phone: 901.748.8600 Fax: 901.748.8686
Email: chiomega@chiomega.com