James Madison University

James Madison University is a public university in Harrisonburg, Virginia, founded in 1908 as a state normal and industrial school for women. It became Madison College in 1938, admitted men in 1966, and took the name James Madison University in 1977. The campus covers about 700 acres in Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah Valley.

Colleges include Arts and Letters, Business, Education, Health and Behavioral Studies, Integrated Science and Engineering, Science and Mathematics, and Visual and Performing Arts. Graduate strengths include education, nursing, communication sciences and disorders, occupational therapy, physician assistant studies, and psychology. University clinics and laboratories, plus placements across the Valley, support professional training.

Enrollment is about 22,000 students, with roughly 1,800 to 2,000 in graduate programs. Most students are from Virginia and nearby states; international enrollment is a small share. Full-time faculty number about 1,000. Alumni include many Virginia teachers and school administrators; journalist Katie Couric is a graduate.

Graduate study is mostly professional master's degrees and clinical doctorates in audiology, nursing practice, and psychology, on a semester calendar with practica in regional schools and health systems. Assistantships are available in some departments. Harrisonburg is a small city in the Valley; Washington, D.C., is about two hours northeast.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, James Madison University lists 1 doctoral program, in health & medical sciences.