Mu Phi Epsilon
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Mu Phi Epsilon (ΜΦΕ) is a co-ed international professional music fraternity and honor society. It boasts over 75,000 members in 128 collegiate chapters and 74 alumni chapters. It was founded November 13, 1903 at the Metropolitan College of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally chartered as a national music sorority, it changed status in 1936 to become an honor society, and again in 1944 to function as a professional music sorority. US federal regulations in the early-1970s opened all such societies to coeducational membership, and in 1977 its official status changed for the final time to operate as a co-ed professional music fraternity.
In its own words, the fraternity aims for the advancement of music throughout the world and promotes scholarship, musicianship, and friendship, along with encouraging each member's loyalty to their Alma Mater.
It is a part of the National Interfraternity Music Council, which includes six other professional music fraternities: Delta Omicron, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Beta, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Sigma Alpha Iota, and Tau Beta Sigma.
