James Madison University Profile

James Madison University
800 South Main Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22807

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SAT is an imperfect predictor of college readiness and success and it is only one of many factors in admissions.
This report does not assume any particular merit or value in the SAT, it merely highlights institutional differences in distributions and mean averages.

Admission Summary, 2023-24 First-Time in College
Domicile	Applied	Accepted	Acceptance Rate	Enrolled	Yield Rate	Rejected	Rejection Rate
In-State	19,061	12,998	68%	3,466	27%	6,063	32%
Out-of-State	16,779	14,324	85%	1,474	10%	2,455	15%

Admission Scores

TEST

Submitted Scores

25th Percentile

Median

75th Percentile

SAT-Verbal

954

600

630

670

SAT-Quantitative

954

570

610

660

High School GPA

4468

3.65

3.89

4.11

ACT_Composite

161

Admission Summary, 2023-24 Graduate
Domicile	Applied	Accepted	Acceptance Rate	Enrolled	Yield Rate	Rejected	Rejection Rate
In-State	1,088	710	65%	528	74%	378	35%
Out-of-State	1,298	480	37%	230	48%	818	63%

Fall Headcount Enrollment
Fall Term	Undergraduates	Graduate Students	Total
Fall 2014	19,144	1,711	20,855
Fall 2015	19,396	1,831	21,227
Fall 2016	19,548	1,722	21,270
Fall 2017	19,975	1,861	21,836
Fall 2018	19,924	1,827	21,751
Fall 2019	19,895	1,925	21,820
Fall 2020	19,726	1,867	21,593
Fall 2021	20,070	2,096	22,166
Fall 2022	20,346	1,878	22,224
Fall 2023	21,006	1,752	22,758

See the report E22: Fall Headcount: Trends in Race Ethnicity for definitions and additiional student levels.

Annualized Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Enrollment
Year	Undergraduate	Graduate	Total
1819	19,748	1,484	21,232
1920	19,711	1,454	21,165
2021	19,904	1,523	21,427
2122	19,512	1,618	21,130
2223	19,808	1,488	21,297

STEMH - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Health Professions

88% of all students entering in 2012-13 either graduated within an Extended Time-to-Completion or were continuing their enrollment in the final year of observation. These Student Success Index results are based on students completing at any Virginia institution.

88% of all students entering in 2012-13 either graduated within an Extended Time-to-Completion or were continuing their enrollment in the final year of observation. These Student Success Index results are based on students completing at any Virginia institution.

Graduation Rates within Six Years

Groups with fewer than 10 students in the starting cohort will not display values. "Normal time" for an associate degree is two years, and four years for bachelor's degree, 150% of Normal time is three years and six years, respectively.

Students Transferring into James Madison University
in Fall and Spring of the Designated Year to the institutions below.
*Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 will not display a graduation rate.

Transfer Enrollment
	Average # New Transfers (2016-17 to 2019-20)	Average # NewTransfers (2016-17 to 2019-20) Graduation Rate	Average # New Transfers (2019-20 to 2022-23)
Blue Ridge Community College	153	74%	131
Brightpoint Community College	27	79%	35
Central Virginia Community College	6		7
Danville Community College	4		4
Eastern Shore Community College	1		0
Germanna Community College	41	87%	36
J Sargeant Reynolds Community College	25	79%	33
Laurel Ridge Community College	82	76%	76
Mountain Empire Community College	0		0
Mountain Gateway Community College	6		6
New River Community College	4		4
Northern Virginia Community College	208	79%	187
Patrick & Henry Community College	5		5
Paul D Camp Community College	0		0
Piedmont Virginia Community College	53	83%	45
Rappahannock Community College	5		5
Richard Bland College	5		6
Southside Virginia Community College	3		3
Southwest Virginia Community College	1		2
Tidewater Community College	33	75%	30
Total Public Two-Year Institutions	712	78%	661
Virginia Community College System	707	78%	654
Virginia Highlands Community College	1		0
Virginia Peninsula Community College	19	76%	18
Virginia Western Community College	25	79%	24
Wytheville Community College	2		0

*Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 will not display a graduation rate.

Debt of 2021-22 Graduates, Total Loans
	Total Graduates		Total Borrowers		Total Borrowing
Degree Level	#	% of All Graduates	#	% of All Borrowers	Amount	% of Total
Bachelors	4,537	85%	2,312	88%	$110,230,522	92%
Graduate	785	15%	309	12%	$9,329,706	8%
Total	5,322	100%	2,621	100%	$119,560,228	100%

Note:

Associates: Includes graduates who received Bachelor's Credit and Occupational/Techincal Credit Associate degrees.
Bachelors: Includes graduates who received Four- and Five-Year Bachelor's degrees.
Graduate: Includes graduates who received Graduate Master's and Doctorate degrees.

Debt of Recent Graduates, Recent Trend
Year	Borrowers (n)	Borrowers (%)	25th Percentile	Median	Mean	75th Percentile
2017-18	2,357	53%	$ 14,840	$ 24,740	$ 28,139	$ 30,678
2018-19	2,400	53%	$ 14,842	$ 24,437	$ 27,464	$ 30,184
2019-20	2,425	51%	$ 13,857	$ 24,742	$ 29,466	$ 31,040
2020-21	2,488	52%	$ 14,000	$ 24,345	$ 29,276	$ 30,680
2021-22	2,258	50%	$ 13,854	$ 24,496	$ 30,268	$ 31,793

Student borrowing at graduation, excludes PLUS loans, in five-year rollups. Includes all known institutionally-processed
borrowing occuring at all public and nonprofit institutions in Virginia. Debt accrued outside Virginia in prior postsecondary activity
is not available.

James Madison University, Four-Year Bachelor's Degree
Earnings in 2022	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$101,992	32%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$89,908	36%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$77,691	39%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$72,888	41%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$65,913	45%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$59,300	48%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$44,298	50%

Only years/programs meeting disclosure rules will be displayed to protect individual confidentiality.

Wages in 2022
Years Post-Completion	10th Percentile	25th Percentile	Median	75th Percentile	90th Percentile
	80% of graduates with full-time wages fall within this range
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$40,163	$65,509	$101,992	$166,994	$279,800
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$40,040	$60,913	$89,908	$140,250	$214,128
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$38,564	$56,005	$77,691	$114,628	$162,866
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$36,101	$53,623	$72,888	$103,844	$146,712
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$32,788	$49,229	$65,913	$89,125	$119,842
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$24,797	$41,972	$59,300	$78,264	$100,698
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$14,563	$26,562	$44,298	$65,681	$82,797

As reminder, the median value represents the very middle value of the sample of values (wage or debt) sorted from low to high. This value is found in the middle line of the barcharts.
The remaining values in the chart are constructed similarly, to display how wages and earnings are distributed. Thus, while the median tells us the middle wage, the values for the 25th and 75th percentiles tell us that half of the graduates with wages fall between those two values. Likewise, 80% of reported wages fall between the 10th and 90th percentiles. The length of each bar section clue to the dispersion in the data - that is, how much earnings can vary within a range a group of individuals.

Virgina Resident Tuition and Fees, General, 2024-25
Student Level	Tuition & Mandatory E&G Fees	Mandatory Non-E&G	Average Room & Board (1)	Total
General Undergraduate	$8,150	$5,816	$12,916	$26,882
General Graduate	$12,216	$1,248	$	$13,464

Non-Resident Tuition and Fees, General, 2024-25
Student Level	Tuition & Mandatory E&G Fees	Mandatory Non-E&G	Average Room & Board (1)	Total
General Undergraduate	$25,496	$5,816	$12,916	$44,228
General Graduate	$29,736	$1,248	$	$30,984

Charges listed here represent the weighted average double occupangy room charge and the maximum weekly meal plan offered, not necessarily the plan used by most students.
In-State: Increases are based on the 2022-23 sticker price. Institutions used one-time funds to offset tuition and E&G fee increases for in-state undergraduates in 2022-23. In-state undergraduates actually paid the same tuition and E&G fees as they did in 2021-22.

Notes/Definitions

Debt: All debt figures refer to education-related debt processed through institutions. i.e. student loans. Unless specified as PLUS loans for undergraduates, the student debt refers to loans taken out by the student, not by parents or relatives. Further, reported student debt calculations are based on graduates who borrowed only. This is why we report the percentage of students/graduates wth debt.

Sample Budgets: These estimates are from the Living Wage project at MIT and are based on the estimated cost of a single adult living in Virginia. Tax and FICA withholding estimates based on a single, unmarried filer.

Limits on the Display of Data

The most important limit to understand is that these short-term measures of outcomes are not meaningful for evaluating the effectiveness of institutions or programs. These are not measures of employment rates, nor they comparable to the so-called Gainful Employment metrics produced by the US Department of Education. These measure are meant to inform readers of the outcomes of graduates in the near-term following degree completion and represent individual behavior and local economies more than any other factor.

In order to protect confidentiality and to accommodate both the many small programs in the Commonwealth and the limits of the available data, these reports will display program-level data only under the following conditions:

1. Single-year data will not be reported at the level of institution, degree, and program, only rolling five-year aggregates. For example, graduates of 2005-06 will be reported with those of 2004-05, 2003-04, 2002-03, and 2001-02.

2. The number of wage-reported graduates must be equal to or greater than 15 with full-time wage equivalent (FTWE) reported wages.

3. At least 30% of the cohort of graduates must have been matched and reported with full-time wage equivalent (FTWE) reported wages, or 20% with a minimum of 200 graduates.

4. The current definition of FTWE is at least three quarters of wages must be reported for each year.

5. Wages and earnings are not adjusted for inflation.

The wage data included in these reports represent only the following individuals:
1. Graduates successfully matched to the Unemployment Insurance Wage records collected by the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC).
2. Graduates employed in Virginia by an entity that reports to the VEC. This excludes federal employees, including those within the Department of Defense.

What employers are subject to the Unemployment Tax and must be registered and file with the Virginia Employment Commission? They must have met one of the following criteria:

One or more employees (ten employees if your operation is agricultural) for some portion of a day during any 20 different weeks in a calendar year
A $1,500 or more total gross quarterly payroll ($20,000 if your business is agricultural; $1,000 if domestic labor)
Acquired a business subject to this tax
Been subject to the Federal Unemployment Tax
A governmental operation or political subdivision
A nonprofit organization under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and had four or more employees for some portion of a day during any 20 different weeks in a calendar year

Source
These criteria mean that individuals working as consultants, independent contractors (including many psychologists, counselors, barbers, cosmetologists, IT workers, and P-14 wage employees of the Commonwealth) may be excluded, as are a list of others that may be found here.