The School of Law-Newark and Rutgers Business School: Graduate Programs-Newark and New Brunswick offer a four-year program of study in law and business. Upon completion of a total of 120 credits in the program, students simultaneously receive a J.D. degree in law and an M.B.A. degree in management or professional accounting.
Students normally take the required J.D. curriculum in the first academic year and the core M.B.A. curriculum in the second academic year. In each of the four semesters in the last two years of the joint-degree program, students enroll in 12 to 16 credits from among the elective offerings of the School of Law or the Rutgers Business School. To comply with ABA and law school residency requirements, students must take at least 12 credits toward the J.D. degree each semester, either from law school offerings and/or by applying credit from the M.B.A. program to the J.D. program (up to a maximum of 12 credits). With few exceptions, a candidate in the joint program must complete the required curricula of both degree programs.
Admission to the joint program requires an application with supporting materials, the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT), and the report of the undergraduate work provided by the Law School Data Assembly Service. Admission decisions are made by a joint committee. If a candidate is rejected by the committee for the joint-degree program, each unit may admit the candidate to their own degree program under their own admissions process.
The joint-degree program is currently approved for full-time students. Part-time students nevertheless are still free to apply simultaneously to the J.D. and M.B.A. programs and, if admitted to both, seek permission to coordinate the programs.
Additional information about the joint program is available from law school associate dean for academic and student affairs, Frances Bouchoux.
