Description James Madison is known as the Father of the Constitution and America's fourth president, but he also has a public institution of higher education named after him. James Madison University (JMU) offers some 70 undergraduate and 35 graduate degrees through more than a half-dozen colleges, including arts and letters, business, education, visual and performing arts, and science and mathematics. The university enrolls about 18,000 students; the student/faculty ratio is 15-to-1. JMU has men's athletic programs in baseball, basketball, football, golf, soccer, and tennis. The women's program boasts nearly a dozen sports, including field hockey and lacrosse. The school was established in 1908 in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
James Madison University has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 749 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The James Madison University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 93% of employees would recommend working at James Madison University to a friend. This is based on 750 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
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