In 2016, the university ranked number fifteen on a list the frattiest colleges in America, with thirty percent of its male students belonging to its 29 fraternities.
[2] In 2024, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Fraternity & Sorority Commons (FSC), community includes four distinct clusters.
The FSC is also working with several intercultural fraternities/sororities and NIC fraternities on their respective reactivation statuses.
[16][3][4] RPI has a rich history of establishing fraternities and sororities on its campus.
To view the full list of organization(s) that have either completed or are currently completing sanctions as a result of investigations conducted by the organization's inter/national headquarters (HQ), the Dean of Students Office/ Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct Institute (DOS/Conduct.