Law and Economics (J.D./M.S.)
The College of Law and Department of Economics joint-degree program in Law and Economics, J.D./M.S., permits completion of both degree programs concurrently. Interested applicants
must first begin their study at the College of Law. Once enrolled in the first-year law curriculum, interested applicants will complete all necessary documentation for the Department of Economics application, as well as a joint-degree application, by the end of the first year at the law school. All required documents should be returned to the College of Law Office of Admissions.
For this joint-degree program, both the GRE and LSAT must be taken in order to be considered. Applicants to the Economics Department must have a bachelor’s degree, an upper division (junior and senior) grade point average of 3.0 or better and a minimum combined score of 1000 on the
verbal and quantitative portions of the GRE. The College of Law’s fall 2010 entering class median LSAT score and GPA were 162 and 3.52.
Application and Degree Requirements