Incoming Students

As a new freshmen and transfer student, you will declare your major through the JMU One Book website when you sign up for orientation. This major becomes your official major on your academic record.

Current Students

If you are a current student wishing to declare or change a major, minor, or pre-professional program, you must complete a request through MyMadison. Additional department specific information will be available once you select that academic plan. Please follow all directions and steps necessary to execute your request. Once all necessary steps are completed, the department will either approve, deny, or contact you for additional information regarding you request.

For additional assistance making this request, please view the Change/Declare a Major/Minor tutorial in MyMadison or on the tutorials website.

Major Minor Requirements for Advisors

If you’re thinking about declaring your major, but you have some hesitations, the What If Report may be a great tool for you. Maybe you’re not sure if you’ll be able to graduate in 4 years if you declare a specific major, or maybe you want to add a minor or another major. These are common questions, and luckily, we have this resource so that you don’t have to do the math.

On MyMadison, you can run a report called the What-if Report. Here, you can choose potential majors, minors, degrees, etc. and see what you’re already fulfilling and what you still need to fulfill in order to graduate (based on your past and current credits).
For instance, if you want to double-major, you can see which courses might fulfill both majors.
As an advisor, I don’t have access to running a report for you, so only you’re able to do this--it’s very easy!

Creating a What-if Report:

Go to MyMadison > Student > Student Center.
Under the Academics section, there’s a dropdown menu. You’ll select “What-if Report.”
Click “Create New Report.”