HOW JMU GRADUATES ADD VALUE TO YOURWORKFORCE
Career-ready, promising professionals. Employers tell us that our graduates hit the ground running. As practiced at working in teams as they are at working independently, JMU graduates know how to lead and when to follow. With JMU’s approach to providing exemplary learning experiences, our graduates can pivot and adapt, keeping your workforce flexible and responsive to the marketplace. Ethically prepared employees for your workforce. JMU is the only university to develop and deliver a proprietary strategy—the distinctive 8KQ strategy—for making better-informed moral decisions. It’s working. Performance assessment shows improved ethical reasoning skills across the entire university. These graduates can contend with complex issues personally and professionally. Civic learning as a hallmark of a JMU education. When you hire JMU interns and employees, you will know they are dedicated to community service and committed to a healthy democracy. JMU graduates are engaged with ideas and the world.
Access to experimental and innovative transdisciplinary courses prepare students for the real world. Distinctive academic combinations produce creative and unorthodox thinkers. JMU students are known for doubling and tripling up on their majors and minors, often in surprising combinations—chemistry and music; biology and dance, nursing and military science, finance and English, business and history— producing graduates with an original blend of abilities and insights. Further, Honors College graduates have designed their education to prepare them for taking calculated intellectual risks and constantly seeking out new and original solutions.
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