Urban and Regional Planning and Law (J.D./M.S.P.)

Florida State Law and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning’s joint degree program in Law and Urban and Regional Planning, J.D./M.S.P., 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 Urban and Regional Planning program 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.  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, he or she must then complete an application for the joint degree program, which is located at the College of Law’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 law school.




The normal program sequence for a student in the joint degree program is:

 
1st Year
30 hours of LAW Courses
2nd Year
24 hours of MSP Courses
3rd & 4th Years
48 hours of Law Courses plus 9 hours of MSP Courses
Total Law Courses
78 hours (10 cross-credits)
Total MSP Courses
33 hours (10 cross-credits)
Total JD/MSP Courses
111 hours






  • Degree and application requirements

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