Mu Beta Psi
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| Colors | Red and White |
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| Flower | Red and White American Beauty Rose |
| Founded | November 5, 1925 at North Carolina State University |
| Type | Service |
| Scope | National |
| Headquarters | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States |
| Chapters | 15 lettered, 1 alumni |
| Homepage | mubetapsi.org |
Mu Beta Psi National Honorary Musical Fraternity is a service and music fraternity with chapters and colonies at universities throughout the United States. Founded in 1925 at North Carolina State University by the director of bands, Major Percy Walter "Daddy" Price, this group began as a male-only, honor fraternity for band students. However, it soon spread to a number of colleges throughout the southern United States and allowed women to join the group in the early 1960s. By the early 2000s, the fraternity had spread to several colleges through the eastern United States, both in the north and south.
Although the name contains National Honorary Musical Fraternity, Mu Beta Psi views itself as primarily a music service group. Several of the chapters run scholarship programs and pride themselves on giving service to their music departments.
[edit] Chapters
The chapters were named in order of their acceptance to Mu Beta Psi. Active chapters are:
| Alpha (Α) | North Carolina State University |
| Zeta (Ζ) | Michigan Technological University |
| Mu (Μ) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Nu (Ν) | State University of New York at Oswego |
| Omicron (Ο) | Roanoke College |
In addition, Mu Beta Psi has an Alumni Association that is considered an active chapter. The Alumni Association is open to alumni of all Mu Beta Psi chapters, active or otherwise.
