Accelerated and Combined Degrees
The Law School participates in joint degree programs with Tulane’s Freeman School of Business (MBA and MACCT); School of Social Work (MSW); Center for Latin American Studies (MA in Latin American Studies); and Department of Global Health Systems and Development of the School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine (MHA). Other joint degree programs may be proposed by students and considered by the Law School on an ad hoc basis. Joint degree programs enable students to complete two degrees in less time than it would take to complete them sequentially, because each school accepts some work completed at the other toward degree requirements.
Students must apply to and be admitted to each program separately and must inform each program of the application to the other. Once admitted to both programs, students must petition the Joint Degree Programs Committee of the Law School, through the Assistant Dean for Admission, in order to be admitted to the joint degree program. Only after the joint program petition has been approved are students considered to be enrolled in a joint degree program. Transfer students are not eligible to participate in joint degree programs.
A JD candidate enrolled in an approved joint degree program must spend 5 full-time, nonsummer semesters primarily in residence at the law school. A JD student enrolled in an approved joint degree program must earn between 79 and 82 hours at the Law School in order to graduate, depending upon the program. In the case of all joint degree programs other than the JD/MACCT, the Law School agrees to count 9 semester hours of courses from the core curriculum of the other degree-granting division towards its requirements. In the case of the JD/MACCT, the Law School counts 6 hours of accounting curriculum towards the law degree. These hours counted from other degree-granting divisions will be reflected on the Law School transcript but excluded from the student’s GPA.
Information about specific credit-hour and sequence requirements can be obtained from the Assistant Dean for Admission.