J.D. /M.B.A.

 CECIL C. HUMPHREYS SCHOOL OF LAW

AND

FOGELMAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

PURPOSE

The School of Law and the College of Business and Economics offer a coordinated degree program leading to the conferral of the J.D. and M.B.A.  The purpose of this joint program is to allow the student to study the intricacies of modern law and management as a coordinated educational effort.  Students who are contemplating a career as a lawyer specializing in business issues and want to acquire the skills and perspective of the business manager will find the J.D./M.B.A. especially helpful. An additional benefit of the J.D./M.B.A. program is that it offers the student the ability to complete both the J.D. and M.B.A. in considerably less time than required to complete each degree separately.

ADMISSION

A potential student must make separate application to and be independently accepted to both the J.D. and M.B.A. programs.  A student is encouraged to apply to both programs at the same time.  A law student must begin the M.B.A. program before beginning the third year of law school course work.  An M.B.A. student must begin law school before completing one half of the course work in the MBA program.  This program is designed for students who wish to complete both degrees simultaneously.

J.D./M.B.A. CURRICULUM

Students are expected to work toward both degrees concurrently.  As part of the cooperative nature of the J..D/M.B..A program, the College of Business and Economics and the School of Law have agreed to accept course work from each college toward their specific degrees.

BENEFITS

The School of Law will award credit toward the M.B.A. degree for nine hours of approved Core Knowledge and Skills course work with a grade of B or better from the M.B.A. program.  Grades in these business courses transfer to the School of Law on a Pass/No Grade basis.  Grades in M.B.A. courses are not used to determine academic standing or class rank in the School of Law.

The College of Business and Economics will award credit toward the M.B.A. degree for nine credit hours from approved courses offered by the School of Law.  The student must earn a C+ or better on the law classes used for the M.B.A. concentration.  The law classes will not be used towards computing the M.B.A. grade point average; however, no more than two C's may count towards the M.B.A. section of the joint degree program.  These nine credit hours count for the six hours of electives in the program plus three credit hours satisfying the international course requirement in the M.B.A.

ELECTIVES

Law classes used for the six hours of M.B.A electives must be from electives in the Law curriculum.  These concentration courses may not be part of the required course sequence for the J.D. degree.  The following Law School courses may count toward the M.B.A.  As new advanced electives that relate to business are developed for the law curriculum, they will be added to this list.  If any course from this list is added to the required course sequence in the law degree curriculum, it will be deleted from this list of courses:

The international component of the M.B.A. may be satisfied by an international law course chosen from the following list of international courses from the School of Law:

PROGRAM SEQUENCE

Students in the coordinated J.D./M.B.A. program may schedule their course work in the joint program to suit their educational objectives, subject to the restrictions listed below:

• A student may take only law courses while completing the first year law curriculum.
• A J.D./M.B.A. student who did not complete the business common body of knowledge course work (Essential Foundation) before entering the joint program must finish the Essential Foundations requirements of the M.B.A. program before beginning Core Knowledge and Skills.
• A student may not register for more than fifteen credit hours concurrently in the two programs, without joint permission of the Dean of the School of Law and the Faculty Director of the Master's Programs in the College of Business and Economics.  Additional restrictions that apply to graduate assistants or other employment shall be determined and enforced by each college.
  
  For further information concerning the two programs and the J.D./M.B.A. please contact the program coordinators:

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