VU offers opportunities for students seeking careers in music-related businesses. Our business emphasis track combines the Liberal Arts Music Major with a professional internship and a Minor in Business Administration. Students in this program will . . .

• participate fully in the performing life of VU's Department of Music.
• take special seminar-style courses to introduce you to a wide range of opportunities in arts management, recording technology, music publishing, retailing, and manufacturing.
• take field trips to acquaint you with music-related enterprises and successful arts professionals throughout the Chicagoland area.
• establish a network of professional contacts.
• participate in Valparaiso's Music Enterprises Student Association, which sends a delegation each year to the national trade show of the National Association of Music Merchants.
• complete a supervised internship, usually in summer, to provide "on the job" training in a field and geographical region suited to your career plans.
• compete for a $1,000 NAMM award presented each year to an outstanding VU student in the music industry track; (you're also eligible for music performance scholarships).

Valparaiso University's Center for the Arts (opened September 1995) functions as a working laboratory of performance, production, presentation, and management. The VUCA offers a wide range of opportunities for student aides and interns in administrative and technical support for the arts. VU graduates of this program are currently employed across the country, including at Walt Disney World in Florida, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Northwest Indiana Symphony, and the Benson Company in Nashville.

The Bachelor of Arts with Music Industry Option requires 40 credit hours in music, including the professional internship; 40 credits in general education; and 31 credits in business. Valparaiso University is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music.

For more information contact the Music Department office.
Call: 219-464-5454