James Madison University Placements: Job Opportunities & Placement rate, Packages

The James Madison University (JMU) has been adjudged Virginia’s Best College for Getting a Job for the second consecutive year. Postgraduate employment at JMU is the highest among all Virginia colleges and educational institutions. Students’ critical skill development, creation of reasoning ability, ethics, team cooperation and polished communication have led to a good success rate and career outcomes.

Career outcome at both the undergraduate level and advanced degree level has been great, with 88.7% of bachelor’s students and 95.1% of students with advanced degrees obtaining the same. At the bachelor’s level, 60.8% got work, 27% were pursuing further studies and 11% were still looking for jobs or planning further education. Similarly, at the advanced degree level, 91.4% had a job, 3.6% were into further studies and 4.6% were still looking for a job.

Most of the undergrads were working in Virginia, Washington D.C, Maryland, and New York and for the advanced degree students, the most popular locations were Virginia, Washington D.C, and Maryland.

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JMU Placement Highlights 2020 

JMU Class Profile 2021

A total of 21,496 students were enrolled for the class of 2021. The number of freshman applications which were received was 22,288, out of which 82% were accepted. The total number of freshmen enrolled was 4,750. Around 46% of students ranked in the top 3^rd of high school class. A total of 76 undergraduate courses, 53 master’s courses, and 8 doctoral courses were offered. The freshman retention rate was 90% and the satisfaction rate was 96%.

1,070 are full-time instruction faculty and part-time instruction faculty is 393 in number. 73% of the faculty has a doctoral or terminal degree.

The pointers below provide more details regarding the 2021 batch class profile.

• The total number of undergraduate students is 19,550.
• The total number of graduate students is 1,946.
• The total percentage of males is 42% and that of the females is 58%.
• Only 1% of students are international students and 22% of students are minorities.
• In-State/out-of-state ratio is 78/22%.
• The student-faculty ratio is 16:1.
• The average class size is 25.
• 88% of classes have students less than 50.
• SAT mid-50% range is 1180-1340 and ACT mid-50% range is 25-30.

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JMU Employment Profile 2020

The following table shows the employment outcome of both bachelor’s and advanced degree holders, 6 months after graduation.

JMU Career Outcome 2020 by Degree 

The career outcomes of bachelor’s and advanced degree holders have been displayed below. For the bachelor’s, the information collected is from 3,821 out of 4,658 undergraduates and for the advanced degree, information of 464 out of 834 students has been taken into consideration.

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JMU Career Outcome 2020 by College 

The following information discusses the career outcome of students with a bachelor’s degree as per different JMU colleges.

Arts & Letters

• Working: 62.4%
• Still Searching: 16.7
• Military: 2%
• Continuing Education: 18.8%

Health & Behavioral Studies

• Working: 50.2%
• Still Searching: 8.1%
• Military: 1.5%
• Continuing Education: 40.1%

Integrated Science & Engineering

• Working: 71.3
• Still Searching: 17%
• Military: 3.1%
• Continuing Education: 8.6%

Business

• Working: 77.8%
• Still Searching: 9.9%
• Military: 1%
• Continuing Education: 11%

Education

• Working: 12.6%
• Still Searching: 0.40%
• Military: 0%
• Continuing Education: 87%

Science & Math

• Working: 45%
• Still Searching: 11.3%
• Military: 0.80%
• Continuing Education: 42.9%

Visual & Performing Arts

• Working: 64.8%
• Still Searching: 13.6%
• Military: 1.8%
• Continuing Education: 19.8%

The graph displayed below featured the top 5 colleges with the best-advanced degree career outcome.

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JMU Top Employers 2021

The bachelor’s degree holders in JMU are working with 1,695 different employers/agencies and the graduates and advanced degree holders are with 230 various employers. The table below features the top employers for both the bachelor’s and advanced degree holders.

Employers for post-graduate internships: 2U, Access PR, Advanced Physical Therapy, American Cancer Society, Bizlab, Chelsea Music Festival, Chicago Botanical Garden, eGreen, ItaliaHello, MTX Group, NewCity, Pac Team Group, Page Bond Gallery, Pro Sports Outlook, Project GROWS, Rhoback, The Net FW, The Scout Guide, The Walt Disney Company, Third Way, University of Maryland, UPS Capitol, VCU Health Centre, Wolf TRAP Foundation.

JMU Placements 2020 by Location

As per the location, most of the bachelor’s graduates (within the US) were working in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland. Similarly, most of the advanced degree holders had a job in Virginia, Washington D.C, and Maryland. The information provided below features the top 8 employment locations of bachelor’s and advanced degree graduates with their data.

Bachelor’s: Virginia (2,150), District of Columbia (202), Maryland (120), Pennsylvania (101), New York (98), New Jersey (71), Massachusetts (56), North Carolina (55).

Advanced degree holders: Virginia (272), Washington D.C (31), Maryland (17), Pennsylvania (12), Florida (12), North Carolina (11), New York (8), New Jersey (7).

Bachelor’s and Advanced degree holders’ employment location abroad

There are 76 graduates who are working in 24 unique countries and 8 advanced degree graduates working in 6 foreign countries. The information below shows the top countries where graduates are working.

Bachelors: China (14), Italy (11), Vietnam (7), England (7), Spain (6)

Advanced Degree Holders: China (2), Italy (2), France (1), Peru (1), Taiwan (1), United Arab Emirates (1).

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JMU MBA Class Profile 2021

JMU’s MBA Information Security has been ranked 29^th in the Top 50 Online MBA Programs, 2022 by the Princeton Review. Also, according to US News and World Report, the same program has been ranked 24^th in Best Online MBA Programs 2022. 

MBA students who graduated witnessed an average of 20% raise in salary. 68% got a promotion or switched jobs and 99% stated that they would suggest JMU’s MBA course to others. Over 1,700 alumni found employment in different for-profit, not-for-profit, and government agencies. Organisations which recently offered a job to the graduates are Sony, IBM, University of Chicago, UVA Health Systems, Microsoft, GE, CIA, FBI, FEMA, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, Oracle and American Diabetes Association.

JMU MBA Salary 2021

JMU Average MBA Salary 2021 by Major 

The overall average salary was $58,600. The major which yielded the highest average salary with $74,153 was Quantitative Finance B.S the one with the lowest average salary was B.A Economics with $35,048. Go through the table below to get a fair idea about different majors and their respective salaries.

Top 6 employers hiring JMU MBA grads 2021

Deloitte: 13%

Accenture: 11%

Alku: 3%

CGI: 3%

Grant Thornton: 3%

IBM: 3%

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JMU Career Placement Support

At James Madison University, students and alumni have strong support in terms of career as well as personality building. JNU graduates’ good placement outcomes are also a result of the interpersonal and soft skills instilled in them during their stay at JMU. The university makes sure that students are motivated to approach the career guides for the purpose of getting an in-depth idea about the career choices available, resume building, job & internship search, market requirements, interviewing skills, etc.

Students can take the help of JMU’s career guide for different majors on offer, most demanded professions, skills required to bag a specific job and more. Some of the student-centric facilities which are offered by the university have been discussed below:

Practice Interview Events: Such mock interviews help students in gaining confidence and proper skill set for the interviews they’d face in the future. These are 30-minute virtual practice interviews in which students interact with employers and obtain honest feedback about their performance. This is a free event which serves as a great platform for interview skills and intellect building.

Career Fests: All the JMU students irrespective of their majors and class batch can attend this fest where more than 100 employers from different industries conduct recruitments from all the courses for jobs as well as internships.

FOCUS: This platform offers self-assessment tests to students in order to analyse their career mappings such as long-term career goals, academic strengths and weaknesses, achievements, individual development requirements and personal characteristics such as personality, interests, values, etc. It also allows them to make comparisons of different similar professions and find out their salaries and growth prospects.

InterviewStream: Here, with a webcam, students can practice online interviews. It contains FAQs in interviews and also gives liberty to students to select their own questions. Ready-made interviews are also available. They can also record their performance, review and retry the same in case of unsatisfactory results.

FirstHand: This is an online reference site that helps students discover different career fields and professions and company reviews and rankings. On the basis of these, they can apply for the jobs.

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