Chapter Numbers

"My chapter is the 100th chartered in Phi Gamma Delta." That depends on how you look at it.

The International Headquarters assigns an administrative number to each chapter. This is based loosely on chronological order, and starts with Alpha Chapter as 101. One might assume that a chapter numbered 240 was the 140th chapter chartered by the Fraternity. That is close but not quite true.

We have added - and removed - chapters from the historical record in the past few years, based on current research. So the chronological numbers are now off by two or three.

And if we want to get really picky, some chapters chartered multiple times - "rechartered" - after the chapter lapsed. A few were chartered, and never installed. And should we count our Alpha Chapter at Washington and Jefferson as one chapter, or two? It was formed when Washington College merged with Jefferson College, consolidating our Alpha and Beta Chapters.

To confuse the whole situation, in the past several decades chapter chartering banquets (and The Phi Gamma Delta magazine) welcomed a new chapter as, say, the "109th chapter." Earlier that day there were 108 active chapters. Cumulatively speaking, we had chapters at many more institutions.

According to the following list, 180 different institutions hosted active Phi Gam chapters. A few - those marked by an asterisk - are now defunct, superseded, or merged. And please note, we used the institution's original name at the time of the chapter's founding. See our more complete list of chapters in chronological order. An asterisk indicates a defunct college.

Thanks to Kyle Bliss (Wisconsin-Eau Claire '95) for asking about chapter numbers.

1 Jefferson College*
2 Washington College
3 University of Nashville
4 Union University
5 University of North Carolina
6 Maryville College
7 Marietta College
8 University of Alabama
9 Centre College
10 Howard College
11 Baylor University
12 Bethel College*
13 Indiana Asbury University
14 University of Virginia
15 Pennsylvania College
16 Allegheny College
17 Kentucky University
18 Soule University*
19 University of Western Pennsylvania
20 Hanover College
21 College of the City of New York
22 Baker University
23 Wabash College
24 Columbia College
25 Illinois Wesleyan
26 Roanoke College
27 Knox College
28 Northwestern University
29 Muhlenberg College
30 Washington College
31 University of Mississippi
32 Ohio Wesleyan University
33 Monmouth College
34 Cumberland University
35 Hampden-Sydney College
36 University of Georgia
37 Indiana University
38 Thiel College
39 State University of Iowa
40 Yale College
41 Western Reserve College
42 Ohio State University
43 University of Maryland
44 Racine College*
45 Williams College
46 University of California at Berkeley
47 University of Pennsylvania
48 University of Kansas
49 University at Lewisburg
50 College of Wooster
51 Lafayette College
52 University of Texas
53 Wittenberg College
54 Denison University
55 University of Michigan
56 Lehigh University
57 William Jewell College
58 Madison University
59 Pennsylvania State College
60 Cornell University
61 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
62 Richmond College
63 University of Minnesota
64 University of Tennessee
65 Johns Hopkins University
66 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
67 Stanford University
68 New York University
69 Trinity College
70 University of Wisconsin 
71 Amherst College
72 Union College
73 University of Illinois
74 University of Nebraska
75 University of Maine
76 University of Missouri
77 University of Washington
78 Dartmouth College
79 Syracuse University
80 Brown University
81 University of Chicago
82 Purdue University
83 Iowa State College
84 Colorado College
85 University of Oregon
86 University of Colorado
87 University of Oklahoma
88 Rutgers College
89 University of the South
90 University of Idaho
91 Oregon Agricultural College
92 Davidson College
93 University of Toronto
94 Georgia School of Technology
95 Occidental College
96 University of British Columbia
97 University of Arizona
98 University of California, Los Angeles
99 University of Florida
100 McGill University
101 Louisiana State University
102 Westminster College
103 University of Southern California
104 Southern Methodist University
105 Washington State University
106 Rhode Island State College
107 Texas Technological College 
108 Miami University 
109 Lawrence College
110 University of Kentucky
111 Michigan State University
112 Kent State University
113 Auburn University
114 Oklahoma State University
115 General Motors Institute 
116 Emory University
117 Arizona State University
118 Ohio University
119 University of New Mexico
120 University of Puget Sound
121 Florida State University
122 University of Wyoming
123 Utah State University
124 University of Western Ontario
125 Kansas State University
126 University of Texas at Arlington
127 Colorado State University
128 University of Arkansas
129 University of Vermont
130 Rose Polytechnic Institute
131 University of Alberta
132 Mississippi State University
133 University of Cincinnati
134 Indiana State University
135 University of South Florida
136 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
137 Western Michigan University
138 Memphis State University
139 West Virginia University
140 Florence State University
141 Clemson University
142 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
143 Idaho State University
144 University of California, Riverside
145 Old Dominion University
146 Texas A&M University
147 Texas Christian University
148 Tennessee Technological University 
149 University of Denver
150 Tulane University
151 University of California, Irvine
152 Bradley University
153 Jacksonville University
154 University of Calgary
155 Bowling Green State University
156 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
157 LaSalle University
158 Colorado School of Mines
159 University of Akron 
160 San Diego State University
161 University of Montana
162 California State University, Fresno
163 University of Utah
164 San Jose State University
165 Villanova University
166 California State University, Long Beach
167 Southwest Texas State University
168 University of California, Santa Barbara
169 Adelphi University
170 California State University, Northridge
171 University of California, San Diego
172 University of Texas at San Antonio 
173 University of Central Florida
174 Drake University
175 James Madison University
176 Princeton University
177 University of Evansville
178 Ball State University
179 William Woods University
180 North Carolina State University
181 Florida International University
182 University of Toledo
183 Chapman University
184 Missouri State University
185 University of Delaware
186 University of Wisconsin
187 University of Nebraska Kearney
188 University of North Carolina Wilmington
189 College of Charleston
190 Western Kentucky University
191 East Carolina University
192 California University of Pennsylvania
193 Appalachian State University
194 University of North Texas
195 Vanderbilt University
196 University of Texas - Dallas
197 Coastal Carolina University

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