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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.

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