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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm from New Jersey and never heard of either of these schools until moving to DC a few years ago.

Have any of you DMV folks every heard of Rider U, Fairleigh Dickinson or Montclair State U? [/quote]

Not comparable. JMU regularly ranks highly nationally in periodicals covering Public College rankings.[/quote]

Such as?  They're all listed under Regional Universities for the USNews rankings.[/quote]

You mean the one that has them listed as the #1 or #2 regional school in the South for 18 years running?

Look, I am no JMU proponent - at best it measures up to large, second tier Nationals. But it ranks significantly higher than the other schools you mention, including Mason.

How about looking at apples to apples - for example how does JMU or the other schools measure up against typical National State Us such as Rutgers, Maryland or Penn State rather than CNU, GMU or Montclair?

Pretty close as it turns out:

http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/

https://best-colleges.time.com/money/more-rankings/the-50-best-public-colleges#/list

http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2015/02/12/2015-rankings-of-u-s-public-colleges.html

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