The University of Virginia has a number of
fraternities and sororities on campus, encompassing the traditional social fraternities and sororities as well as coeducational
professional,
service, and
honor fraternities. Social life at the university was originally dominated by debating societies. The first fraternity chapter founded at UVA was
Delta Kappa Epsilon in 1852, and it was quickly followed by many more; the University of Virginia was the birthplace of two national fraternities,
Kappa Sigma and
Pi Kappa Alpha, which exist at the university as of 2023.