Alpha Mu Sigma () was an historically Jewish fraternity founded in at

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

. It disbanded in .

History

Alpha Mu Sigma was founded at

on . According to Baird's (20th), "The original plan was to limit membership to men of the Jewish faith and the first expansion was limited to similar engineering institutions." The main archive URL i
The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage
Its Founders were: Baird's goes on to further describe that, "With the prosperity of the s expansion took place quickly, but many of the chapters did not survive the eat pression."

Demise

The national fraternity disbanded in , with the remaining four chapters becoming inactive or being absorbed by other, larger Jewish fraternities. ''Alpha chapter'' at Cooper Union functioned until . Total membership in 1945, 1,500.

Symbols

*Publication: ''The Shield''.

Chapter List

These were the chapters of Alpha Mu Sigma. Active chapters that withdrew or merged into other organizations shown in bold; dormant chapters shown in ''italics''.

Notes

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