Omega Psi Phi fraternity is known in universities around the country for their step team performances. The Ohio State chapter of the organization was even featured in an MTV special chronicling their journey and competition in a national step team competition in 2010. Other men's Greek organizations such as Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi and Sigma Pi Phi are often strong contenders in national step team competitions. Each male fraternity has a characteristic style that is typically echoed throughout different university chapters with varying degrees of involvement and skill. As a general rule, traditionally black universities (such as Morehouse, Stillman, Spellman, Howard and Langston) boast strong men's step teams with a competitive atmosphere.
As with men's step teams, most university women's step teams are sponsored by Greek organizations. Traditionally black female sororities such as Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta and Sigma Gamma Rho are a few of the sororities that have been represented in national step team competitions around the U.S. These organizations are represented at most of the major state college universities and colleges and are strongly represented at traditionally black universities. Female step teams are equally competitive and have different styles, such as the more feminine style of the Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter from Indiana University, who took home first place in the female division at the National Sprite Step Off competition in 2010.
Many coed step teams are community based out of faith groups or other organizations or as a result of two Greek organizations pairing up in order to make a larger step team for a competition or event. Georgetown University Step Team is a university-affiliated step team that offers coed membership at Georgetown University. Highsteppers at Princeton University is another coed step team not directly related to a Greek organization. Step It Up at the University of Virginia is a coed step team that performs at pep rallies and other university events. Phenomenon step team at Cornell University, as well as a variety of faith-based step teams out of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, offer alternatives to traditional Greek organizations.
While stepping is popular at a multitude of American colleges and universities, the step teams found at traditionally black universities or campuses populated by a large multicultural community tend to be more competitive and visible than nontraditionally black universities. Many multicultural universities, like Rutgers University and the University of Houston, as well as Ohio State and Langston University in Oklahoma, boast strong step team cultures. Typically, southern schools display more step spirit than Northeast Coast or West Coast campuses. Phi Sigma Chi is a multicultural national men's fraternity that seeks to diversify stepping as an art form.