Sigma Alpha Epsilon strives to give young men the leadership, scholarship, service and social experiences they need to excel in the walls outside their campus and once they graduate. In addition, we strive to mold our members into gentlemen so they can set an example in today's society. Our Creed: “The True Gentleman”
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute
sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
- John Walter Wayland
226 total chapters + 17 colonies = 243 total groups
Approximately 11,000 undergraduates
Average chapter size, including pledges and actives, is 43 men. Sigma Alpha Epsilon has initiated more than 303,000 men since badge sequences were first recorded. The Fraternity’s largest chapters are located at the University of Texas at Austin, with 142 members, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, with 138 members. There are approximately 190,000 living alumni in the Fraternity. The average colony size is 32 men, and the average colony GPA is 3.1.
