friendship, loyalty, & brotherhood to last a lifetime
Through friendship, scholarship, leadership, and service, SAE finds men with impeccable character and helps them achieve their full potential, allowing them to rise up to face every challenge placed before them today and tomorrow. We achieve this by developing our members into True Gentlemen.
Our Values
Friendship
Friendship is important to the fraternity experience and also includes the idea of “brotherhood.” The social connections you make with each other through SAE allow you to create memories and friendships that last a lifetime.
Scholarship
Scholarship is the purpose and forefront of the higher education experience. SAE recognizes that you are students first, and we want our chapters to do everything they can to help you achieve your scholastic goals.
Leadership
When it comes to leadership, the fraternity wants all members to become leaders in their own way. Whether it’s allowing you to serve in a position, being a part of a committee, or helping execute an event, SAE wants to equip you with the skills and tools to be a leader.
Service
Service is integral to the fraternity experience. Through our national service partners and your local community organizations, the opportunity to serve those in need is one that Sigma Alpha Epsilon is honored to orchestrate.
JOIN SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON
If you are interested in joining SAE, please fill out the following form, and we will send your information to our chapter services team and the local chapter you are interested in joining.
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enjoy the bonds of fraternity beyond your campus
When you join Sigma Alpha Epsilon, you become part of a brotherhood of more than 360,000 men who came before you, supported by an active alumni network of over 250,000 living members eager to guide and connect with you.
Beyond your chapter, you’ll have opportunities to engage at the provincial and national level through activities like SAE Third Thursday gatherings, Province events, and the National Ambassador Program. You can also connect through affinity groups such as the SAE National Golf Association, SAE Hunters & Anglers, and the SAE Historical Society, expanding your experience and network.
True Gentlemen With a Historic & Storied Past
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is one of the country’s oldest and largest fraternities, founded March 9, 1856, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Our founders were eight men who sought to found a new Greek-letter fraternity to perpetuate through the organization the warm friendships they had already formed on the campus of the university. Since then, SAE has expanded to over 200 chapters across the United States, initiating over 360,000 brothers.
Since 1856, Sigma Alpha Epsilon has been building a brotherhood rooted in the values of true gentlemen: impeccable character, self-control, humility, and leadership.
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
invest in your present & prepare for your future
SAE Job Board
The ΣAE Job Board is an exclusive career platform that offers internships, part-time, and full-time positions, tapping into ΣΑΕ’s national network of Brothers for many career opportunities!
True Gentleman Mentor Program
The True Gentleman Mentor Program brings together collegians and alumni of all ages and career stages to offer guidance, mentorship, and perspective.
SAE Foundation Scholarship Program
Supported by generous donors, the SAE Foundation awards merit-based scholarships to undergraduates and graduates each year.