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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Maryland and knew some people who went to JMU. I remember seeing signs for CNU on the way to the beach.[/quote]

Does Bethesda count as out of state? About 15 per cent of BCC went to either JMU or VT....but no haven't heard of the other one.[/quote]

Stumbled across this thread - went to high school in MoCo and JMU for undergrad.

What an amazing amount of misinformation on this thread. The term "regional" is not coextensive sight the word "mediocre". JMU is a solid State School that serves, along with Virginia Tech, as the best second choices to WM and UVA for a VA residents depending on major. This is not conjecture - rankings by Kiplinger, Forbes, others bear this out.

JMU when ranked against all Public Universities - and not just equally small ones, consistently ranks pretty well - top 25 generally, as does Va Tech.

And it's majors are strong. Look at its Communications alum. Consider the latest Businessweek ranking of its undergraduate Business School: it ranks higher than GW, Maryland and VT both in terms of ranking and placement/salaries.

Consider the rankings by Money, Kiplinger, Insider, USAToday - do they bear out a mediocre school?

Whether JMU is a household name is only somewhat relevant. I'd argue its grads are not suffering its Harrisonburg location or small size....[/quote]

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