We are committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who will lead productive and meaningful lives.

So everything on our beautiful campus in the center of the Shenandoah Valley is designed, built and run with the success of our 15,000 students in mind. Faculty and students here share an unusually close relationship for a university our size. Our curriculum is innovative and alive. Campus life is vibrant - everything at JMU is compelled by delivering on the promise made by our mission.

Our students really begin to soar when they take it on themselves to get involved in the many different facets of life at JMU. Lively classroom discussions. Volunteer work at a local high school. Undergraduate research. Serving in a soup kitchen during one of our hugely popular Alternative Spring Break trips.

No matter the avenue, the outcome is the same – the engaged student takes full advantage of his Madison experience and readies himself to make a remarkable impact in his world.

For 100 years now, our faculty and students have been fully involved in transforming the power of knowledge into civic change. It all starts with engagement