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Sigma Gamma Rho
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. (ΣΓΡ), a historically Black sorority of the Divine Nine, founded November 12, 1922 at Butler University, Indianapolis, by seven educators; incorporated 1929, joined NPHC 1937, slogan "Greater Service, Greater Progress."
Sigma Nu
Sigma Nu (ΣΝ) is a men's college social fraternity founded January 1, 1869 at Virginia Military Institute by Hopkins, Quarles, and Riley as the anti-hazing Legion of Honor, with over 150 chapters and 270,000 initiates.
Sigma Phi Delta
Sigma Phi Delta (ΣΦΔ) is an international professional-social fraternity for engineering students, founded on April 11, 1924, at the University of Southern California and admitting only students seeking engineering degrees.
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp), national social fraternity founded November 1, 1901 at Richmond College (now University of Richmond) by 12 men including Carter Ashton Jenkens; known for the 1991 Balanced Man Program and over 15,000 undergraduates.
Silliman University
Silliman University, private Protestant university in Dumaguete City, Philippines; founded 1901 by Horace B. Silliman gift, university status 1938; CHED autonomous, QS Asia 2026 694th, 9th nationally.
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU), public research university in Burnaby, Surrey, and Vancouver, British Columbia, founded 1965, named for explorer Simon Fraser. Erickson/Massey-designed Burnaby Mountain campus; first Canadian research-intensive university accredited by NWCCU; new Stephens Family School of Medicine opens 2026.
Singapore Management University
Singapore Management University (SMU) is a publicly funded private university founded in 2000 in downtown Singapore, modeled on Wharton, with eight schools in business, accountancy, law, computing, economics, and social sciences.
Skidmore College
Skidmore College: private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York; founded 1903 by Lucy Skidmore Scribner as the Young Women's Industrial Club, chartered 1922; coeducational since 1971; motto Creative Thought Matters.
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is a Yale undergraduate senior secret society founded in 1832 by Russell and Taft; it taps 15 juniors yearly, meets in the 1856 windowless Tomb at 64 High Street, and is distinct from Ubisoft's 2024 video game of the same name.
SKY (universities)
SKY is the collective name for South Korea's three most prestigious universities, Seoul National University, Korea University, and Yonsei University, all in Seoul, dominating domestic rankings, admissions, and elite career pipelines.
Smith College
Smith College is a private women's liberal arts college in Northampton, Massachusetts, founded 1871 by Sophia Smith's bequest, opened 1875; known for its open curriculum, no-loans aid, Five College Consortium membership, and first women's-college engineering degree.
SOAS University of London
SOAS University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), founded 1916 in Bloomsbury, is a University of London specialist public research university for Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with 5,000+ students, Development Studies ranked 2nd globally (QS 2026), and the UK's National Research Library for those regions.
Somali National University
Somali National University (Jaamacadda Ummadda Soomaaliyeed, SNU) is Somalia's public national university, headquartered in Mogadishu. Founded in 1954, it closed in 1991 during the civil war and reopened in 2014.
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College is a coeducational constituent college of the University of Oxford, founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall as one of the first women's colleges.
Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University (SSU), founded 1960 as Sonoma State College in Rohnert Park, California, is a California State University campus serving the North Bay; WSCUC-accredited since 1969, now under a Notice of Concern.
Sophia University (上智大学)
Sophia University (上智大学, Jochi Daigaku) is a Jesuit-founded private university in Tokyo, established 1913 from St. Francis Xavier's 1549 wish; motto "For Others, With Others"; 9 faculties, 12,419 undergraduates in 2025.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne Université, public Paris university created January 1, 2018 by merging Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI); three faculties, over 53,000 students, QS #73 (2027), withdrew from THE rankings in 2026.
South Carolina Gamecocks
South Carolina Gamecocks: University of South Carolina athletic teams (also Fighting Gamecocks), NCAA Division I, SEC since 1990; nickname adopted 1902 after a Clemson banner dispute; garnet and black; mascot Cocky since 1980; nine national titles.
South Dakota State University
South Dakota State University (SDSU), South Dakota's Morrill Act land-grant university in Brookings, founded 1881, largest in the state with 12,139 fall 2025 students, Jackrabbits athletics, R1 goal by 2031.
Southeast Missouri State University
Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO), founded 1873 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri as the Third District Normal School, is a public master's-level regional university with a statewide mission in computer science, cybersecurity, and the arts.
Southeast University
Southeast University (东南大学, SEU) is a Project 985/211 national key research university in Nanjing, China, tracing to 1902; strong in engineering, with five A+ disciplines and twelve Double First-Class disciplines.
Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference (SEC), American college athletic conference founded 1932 in Knoxville, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Sixteen members after Oklahoma and Texas joined July 1, 2024; $3.4B member athletics revenue and $1.03B distributed for 2024-25.
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), founded 1916 as PITA, is a publicly funded Calgary polytechnic offering apprenticeship, diploma, and certificate programs to over 40,000 students annually.
Southern Conference
Southern Conference (SoCon), NCAA Division I athletic conference founded February 25, 1921 in Atlanta; fifth-oldest DI league, headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C., with ten members and FCS football; predecessor of the SEC (1932) and ACC (1953).
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University (SIU) is an Illinois public university system founded in 1869 as Southern Illinois Normal University, comprising SIU Carbondale (R1, flagship) and SIU Edwardsville, with medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, and law programs.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), flagship of the SIU System alongside SIU Edwardsville, is a public research university founded in 1869 as a normal school, achieving R1 Carnegie status in 2025 with about 12,000 students.
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University (SMU), a private university in University Park, Dallas, Texas, founded 1911 by Texas Methodist conferences, opened 1915; today Carnegie R1, ACC member, 12,544 students, $2.3 billion endowment.
Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), founded in 1932 as a Manchester, NH accounting school, is a private nonprofit NECHE-accredited university and one of America's largest, with over 200,000 online students, College for America competency-based degrees, and a 36% eight-year completion rate.
Southern University
Southern University is a historically black university system in Louisiana, headquartered in Baton Rouge and created in 1974, whose flagship, Southern University and A&M College, was chartered in 1880.
Southern Utah University
Southern Utah University, known as SUU, is a public university in Cedar City, Utah, founded in 1897 as the Branch Normal School with over 150 academic programs.