Florida State Law and the College of Social Work’s joint degree program in Law and Social Work, J.D./M.S.W., permits completion of both degree programs concurrently. Applicants must apply for acceptance to both colleges according to the individual department’s admission criteria.

For the joint degree program, both the GRE and LSAT must be taken in order to be considered. Applicants to the College of Social Work must have a bachelor’s degree, an upper division (junior and senior) grade point average of 3.0 or better or a minimum combined score of 1000 on the verbal and quantitative portions of the GRE.  At the College of Law, for the Fall 2009 entering class, the average LSAT score was a 161 and the median GPA was a 3.53.

Once a student is accepted in to both colleges, they must then complete an application for the joint degree program, which is located at thelaw school's Office of Admissions and Records. This is normally done during the first year of law school. The first year of study is generally done at the College of Law.