College of Business - Recognitions & Awards

JMU’s College of Business (CoB) is among the fewer than 5 percent of business programs accredited by AACSB-International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), and one of 186 programs to receive accreditation in both business and accounting. 

JMU’s marketing students have achieved more wins in the Google Online Marketing Challenge than any other university in the world, including two times as the Global Social Impact Award Winner, AdWords Business Global Co-Winner,  Google+ Social Media Marketing Global Winner,  five times as AdWords Business Americas Region Winner, and Google+ Social Media Marketing Americas Region Winner.  

Five years post-graduation, Virginia residents attending the CoB had the highest return-on-investment of the 82 business schools included in Poets&Quants 2017 undergraduate business program ranking.

Accounting students complete a fifth year masters program and in 2016, had the #2 pass rate on the CPA exam among schools with 20 or more students taking the exam.

JMU’s Information Security MBA program combines the knowledge and skills of a cutting-edge MBA curriculum with coursework and experiences focused on management challenges in this specific field. Online MBA Today vetted 350 programs based on estimated tuition costs and lengths of programs, accreditation, pay scale salary reports, and how programs performed within national and globally-trusted ranking entities.

JMU’s InfoSec MBA program is ranked No. 22 by US News & World Report’s Best Online MBA programs, 2018 ranked no. 1 in Virginia and no. 7 in Student Engagement.

JMU’s Information Security MBA ranked #16 in Princeton Review’s “Top 25 Online MBA Programs, 2018”