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Commencement ceremonies start at JMU

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Commencement ceremonies start at JMU

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5/12/22

It is graduation weekend at James Madison University.

Commencement ceremonies will be held on today, tomorrow and Saturday in the Atlantic Union Bank Center and they will be streamed virtually on the university website and social media outlets.

The university will confer nearly 39-hundred undergraduate degrees, 661 graduate degrees and 32 doctoral degrees.

The top three most popular undergraduate degrees were health sciences, psychology and nursing.

Education, accounting and speech pathology were the top three graduate programs.

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