MARS HILL UNIVERSITY MUSIC ALUMNI FACTS

• Since 2007, Mars Hill University Department of Music has had a 100% job placement rate for our Bachelors of Music Education graduates who wished to teach in the public schools.
• Four Past Presidents of the North Carolina Bandmasters Association are Mars Hill University alumni: Michael Wilson, Fran Shelton, Anne Reese, and Michael Robinson.
• All of our graduates teaching band in public high schools made a Superior rating at the 2014 MPA Band Festival at Brevard College.
• In his first year as band director at Asheville Middle School, Kevin Young (Bachelor of Music Education, MHU, 2013) placed four students (more than any other school in the district) in the District Jazz Band.  One of these four, a trumpet player, also made First Chair in All-State Jazz Band and is in the NC Honor Band.

GRADUATE SCHOOLS ATTENDED BY MHU STUDENTS

** denotes Graduate Teaching Assistantship

Armed Forces School of Music; University of Texas; University of California, Los Angeles**; Schwob School of Music, Columbus (GA) State University**; Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music; University of North Carolina, Greensboro**; University of Massachusetts Amherst**; North Carolina School of the Arts**; University of Tennessee**; University of Nevada, Las Vegas**; Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music**; New York University**; University of North Carolina, Greensboro**; University of Michigan; Lee University; The Ohio State University; Columbia University; University of South Carolina; Mercer University, McAfee School of Theology; Emory University, Candler School of Theology; Campbell University, School of Theology; Indiana University; University of Colorado; University of Illinois; Florida State University; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Southern Methodist University