The MBA/JD program is offered jointly by the College of Business and Public Administration and the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. The fields of law and business are complex and dynamic, and there is significant interaction between the two. The MBA/JD dual degree program provides students with a broad base of knowledge and skills in both areas. Students completing the program will have a unique advantage in today's competitive marketplace and a strong foundation for future success.
Admission Requirements
The MBA/JD program is open to all students who have successfully completed a baccalaureate degree at an accredited college or university. To be admitted into the program, you must 1) apply to, 2) meet the admission requirements of, and 3) be independently accepted by the College of Business and Public Administration and the Brandeis School of Law. Students currently enrolled only in the MBA program must apply to the School of Law prior to completing 18 credit hours of MBA course work. Students currently enrolled only in the School of Law must apply to the MBA program prior to completing the first semester of the second year of law school.
Upon admission to both schools, students should contact the law school and the business school to develop a proposed course of study. It is the student's responsibility to monitor their progress in the program and to update the course of study as needed.
Curriculum Requirements
Candidates in the MBA/JD program must complete 27 hours in the MBA curriculum (instead of the normal 36 hours) and 81 hours in the JD curriculum (instead of the normal 90 hours).
Nine hours from each program can be counted as electives in the other program to give the student the required hours for both the MBA and JD degrees. Only MBA courses approved by the Law Dean's Office may be applied to the JD degree. Likewise, only JD courses approved by the MBA counselor will be applied to the business degree. Students must complete the requirements for both degrees before either degree is awarded.
Full-time MBA/JD students must be enrolled in the Brandeis School of Law for a minimum of six semesters and must enroll in a minimum of 10 hours each semester. Part-time MBA/JD students must be enrolled in a total of eight credit hours each term for a minimum of eight semesters.
Law School Requirements (as of fall 2001)
First Year Requirements |
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Fall |
Hours |
Spring |
Hours |
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| Basic Legal Skills* | 0 | Basic Legal Skills | 3 | |
| Civil Procedure I | 3 | Civil Procedure II | 3 | |
| Contracts I | 3 | Contracts II | 3 | |
| Legal Research | 1 | Criminal Law | 3 | |
| Property I | 3 | Property II | 3 | |
| Torts I | 3 | Torts II | 3 | |
| WestLaw/Lexis training must be completed in the first-year of law school. | *Basic Legal Skills credit hours are awarded upon completion of the fall and spring term. | |||
Second and Third Year Requirements |
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| Constitutional Law I | 3 | Domestic Relations | 3 | ||
| Constitutional Law II | 3 | Estate and Gift Taxation | 2 | ||
| Professional Responsibility | 3 | Evidence | 4 | ||
| Completion of seminar course or journal note that satisfies the writing requirement | 2/3 | Negotiable Instruments | 3 | ||
| Completion of course that satisfies the perspective requirement (Jurisprudence, Legal History, Comparative Law, English Legal System, European Union law, International Law, Law and Economic Analysis, Law and Literature and Law and the Oppressed) | 2/3 | Secured Transactions | 3 | ||
| Public Service Requirement (30 work hours) The thirty public service hours are in addition to the ninety credit hours required for graduation. | Nine (9) credit hours of Business courses. The following courses have been designated: | ||||
| Twenty-four (24) credit hours of core courses. The following courses have been designated: | ACCT 600 Managerial Accounting | 3 | |||
| Administrative Law | 3 | ECON 600 Managerial Economics | 3 | ||
| Basic Income Taxation | 4 | FIN 600 Financial Management | 3 | ||
| Business Organizations | 4 | MGMT 600 Advanced Organizational Behavior | 3 | ||
| Conflict of Laws | 3 | MKT 600 Marketing Management | 3 | ||
| Criminal Procedure I | 3 | MGMT 690 Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Strategy | 3 | ||
| Criminal Procedure II | 3 | ||||
| Decedents' Estates and Trusts | 4 | ||||
The Brandeis School of Law does not have sequenced pairs of courses after the first year. It should be noted, however, that many upper division elective courses have prerequisites. For example, the course in Evidence is a prerequisite to Trial Practice and several externships. In all cases, students should plan their schedules carefully and consult with advisors in both programs.
Business School Requirements (as of fall 2001)
These courses are taken by the student in the second, third and fourth years of the dual degree program. Students may be required to take MBA Foundation courses if they have not completed basic accounting and business courses.
| Twenty-four (24) credit hours of core courses. The following courses have been designated: | Nine (9) Law School Hours. The following courses have been designated: | |||||
| ACCT 600 Managerial Accounting | 3 | Basic Tax | 4 | |||
| CIS 675 Management Information Systems | 3 | Estate & Gift Tax | 2 | |||
| ECON 600 Managerial Economics | 3 | Antitrust Law | 3 | |||
| FIN 600 Financial Management | 3 | Banking Law | 2/3 | |||
| MGMT 600 Advanced Organizational Behavior | 3 | Business Organizations | 4 | |||
| MGMT 610 Operations Management Systems and Technology | 3 | Business Torts | 2/3 | |||
| MKT 600 Marketing Management | 3 | Corporate Finance * | 2/3 | |||
| MGMT 690 Corporate Entrepreneurship and Global Strategy | 3 | Debtor-Creditor Law | 3 | |||
| One MBA Elective | 3 | Insurance | 3 | |||
| Negotiable Instruments | 3 | |||||
| Patent Law | 2/3 | |||||
| Problems in Corporation Law | 2/3 | |||||
| Products Liability | 3 | |||||
| Secured Transactions | 3 | |||||
| Securities Regulation | 3 | |||||
| * Must be taken for 3 credit hours | ||||||
MBA Foundation Courses
Students without an undergraduate degree in business may be required to take up to 12 hours of MBA foundation courses. These courses cover basic concepts of business subjects such as accounting, economics, finance, management and marketing and give the students a foundation of knowledge for taking courses in the MBA core curriculum. Upon admission to the MBA program, the student must take the following foundation core course(s) unless the course equivalents were taken in the student's undergraduate curriculum, a minimum grade of C was earned, and the MBA Counselor has waived the course requirement.
| ACCT 500 Fundamentals of Accounting or 6 hours of Principles of Accounting I & II |
1.5 |
| ECON 500 Economics or 6 hours of Micro and Macro Economics |
3 |
| FIN 500 Business Finance or 3 hours of Corporate Finance |
3 |
| MGMT 501 Managerial Statistics or 3 hours of statistics (placement test) |
3 |
| MKT 500 Marketing Concepts or 3 hours of Principles of Marketing |
1.5 |
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