HOLLAND MICHIGAN COLLEGE

Hope College is a distinguished four-year national liberal arts college that effectively combines academic excellence with a vibrant Christian faith which form a supportive and welcoming community. Hope is proud to have the following distinctions:
* One of six national liberal arts colleges identified as "Up-and-Comers," institutions in 2013 U.S. News & World Report College Guide
* Among a select group of colleges and universities nationwide listed in the book "Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About College" (2012 edition)
* The only private, liberal arts college to have national accreditation in art, dance, music and theatre
* Consistently awarded more National Science Foundation grants for undergraduate research than any other liberal arts college in the country
* Ranked fourth behind the University of Michigan, Stanford and MIT for undergraduate research and creative activity in the initial rankings by US News & World Report " "The Insider's Guide to the Colleges," compiled and edited by the staff of the "Yale Daily News." credit Hope with providing students "solid academic programs, the personal attention possible only at a small school, and a warm social atmosphere, all structured around a core of Christian values."

Hope enrolls over 3,300 students from 45 states and territories and 34 foreign countries. Hope students choose to study abroad in more than 200 programs in over 60 countries. More than 1,800 internships are available locally, as well as off-campus centers in Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, and other locations.

Hope College is recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for initiatives that engage students with communities at home and abroad.\

Quality of teaching 

Hope students find a faculty of professionally distinguished scholars who have a genuine concern for the total development of each student.  

Hope is one of only 10 church-related colleges and universities nationwide highlighted in the book Putting Students First: How Colleges Develop Students Purposefully. Our student: faculty ratio is 13:1.

Hope is among 50 colleges recommended by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in its guide All-American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals and People of Faith, which notes that “The students and faculty we spoke with confirm that the school walks its talk; Hope College is both academically serious and theologically earnest.”

Academic programs

Our 91 majors and minors in liberal arts and pre-professional fields provide unusual flexibility for students to combine their interests. Known as a powerhouse in the sciences, Hope is also the only private, liberal arts college to have national accreditation in art, dance, music and theatre.

Ranked 4th in the U.S. for research and creative activity
National leadership in collaborative faculty/student research and creative activity. Hope is consistently awarded more National Science Foundation grants for undergraduate research than any other liberal arts college in the country and was ranked fourth behind the University of Michigan, Stanford and MIT for undergraduate research and creative activity in the initial rankings by US News & World Report.

Diverse and accomplished students

During 2013-14 Hope enrolled 3,388 students from 39 states and territories and 34 different countries. We are a leading college for Fulbright Scholars, and our students can look forward to attending their first choice of graduate and professional schools.

The 2013 Fiske Guide to Colleges includes Hope as one of the country's best and most interesting colleges and universities, noting that "Hope's academic and athletic programs continue to grow and prosper."

Other guides and organizations that recognized Hope in the past year include the 39th edition of The Insider's Guide to Colleges, the America's Top Colleges guide published by Forbes Magazine and The Princeton Review, which cited Hope among the "Best in the Midwest."