2. The Department selects more than 30 prospective students annually for renewable music scholarships in support of music majors and minors.

3. The annual Christmas Vespers service is broadcasted by more than 70 radio stations across the country. It has been televised nationally by PBS since 1991 and received a Michigan Emmy Award for the 2004 broadcast.

4. The Education Department at Hope is nationally recognized for its excellence. Virtually every music education graduate is offered a beginning music teaching position within six months of graduation; often several have already accepted teaching positions before Commencement.

5. The Chapel Choir, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra, and Wind Symphony have issued recordings of their work.

6. The New York Arts Program allows music students to work as interns for musical groups and organizations in New York City for a semester.

7. The department sponsors over 100 public performances per year, which are attended by nearly 14,000 people.

8. The annual Concerto-Aria Competition provides a venue for winners to perform an aria or concerto movement with the Hope College Orchestra.

9. The faculty includes 13 full-time and approximately 25 part-time professionals, many of whom have earned national or international reputations. Ten full-time faculty members hold doctoral degrees in their field.

10. 2008 marked the 20th anniversary of Musical Showcase, a major annual public event with more than 1,000 attendees, featuring virtually every Hope music student in a gala solo and ensemble performance at DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids.

11. Hope's Vienna Summer School offers all Hope students the opportunity to study music, other arts and humanities topics, and the German language in Vienna every summer.

12. Approximately 20% of music majors at Hope are completing dual degrees in music and a non-music discipline. Each year, one or more graduates continue directly into medical school or law school. About 5% of music majors complete dual degrees in music.

13. Each year, approximately 15-25 Hope students graduate with a degree in music. Several enroll in music graduate programs in areas such as performance, musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, or in related fields of arts administration and music & information technology. Still others choose to free-lance as performers in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Nashville, Cleveland, Los Angeles.