»Joint JD/MBA at Chapman University

Credits: The joint degree program requires the completion of 118 total credits (as opposed to 138 credits if the two degrees are sought separately and outside the joint program).

*The Fowler School of Law will accept 8 of the MBA credits toward completion of its 88-credit requirement; thus students must complete 80 law credits (53 credits of required courses and 35 credits of electives).

*The Argyros School of Business and Economics will accept seven of the JD credits toward completion of its 50-credit requirement, thus reducing the MBA requirements to 38 business credits (35 credits of required courses and 3 credits of electives).

• The Argyros School of Business and Economics will apply any seven credits from the Fowler School of Law toward the completion of its MBA degree, but will also allow certain other law courses (such as Federal Income Taxation) to count as business school electives.
• Work transferred into the JD from the MBA will be treated as Pass/No Pass for the purposes of arriving at a law school GPA, and vice versa.

Residency: The Fowler School of Law has, in addition to completion of a certain number of credits and specific required courses, a residency requirement. Law students must complete six credits of residency. The JD/MBA program, as detailed in the semester-by-semester curriculum chart, is carefully constructed to allow students to meet their residency requirements. Students are cautioned that any self-initiated deviations from the schedule could results in difficulty meeting residency requirements. Consult with your advisor before considering any deviations.

Advisors: Students in the JD/MBA program will be "housed" in the Law School. Their financial aid will be handled by Graduate Financial Aid and they will register for course work with the Law School's Registrar. However, each program will appoint an advisor for students who will counsel students on progress to respective degrees as well as changes or updates within each school. The Argyros School of Business and Economics advisor is Associate Director Serena Healey and the Fowler School of Law Advisor is Professor Tom Campbell.

Degrees & Transcripts: Degrees from each school will be awarded upon successful completion of all requirements for each degree. Two separate transcripts will be maintained for each student - one in Law and one in Business. Cumulative JD/MBA GPAs will not be commingled. The degrees conferred are not reflected on both transcripts (i.e. the School of Law transcript only shows a JD degree and the Business transcript only shows an MBA degree).

For more information, please feel free to contact our Admissions Office.

Students interested in the joint degree must meet all admission requirements for each school and must submit separate applications to each school.

•     The GMAT/GRE is required for the MBA admission application.
•     The LSAT is required for admission to the law school.

Students may apply simultaneously to both programs. If admitted to both, the student will defer taking MBA courses for one year and will enroll exclusively in the first-year law curriculum. In year two, the majority of classes will be in the business school, and years three and four will be a combination of both law and business courses.

Students must earn a cumulative law GPA of at least 2.6 after completing the first-year law curriculum in order to proceed into the JD/MBA combined curriculum.
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Students may also apply to the MBA program during their first year in the school of law. Many of the current JD/MBA students did not apply to the MBA program until after completing the first semester of law school.

First Year
Fall Semester	#Units
Torts I	3
LRW I	3
Contracts I	3
Civil Procedure I	3
Criminal Law	3
Total Units: 15 (one unit of residency)
Spring Semester	#Units
Torts II	3
LRW II	2
Contracts II	3
Civil Procedure II	2
Civil Procedure Practice Lab	1
Property	4
Total Units: 14 (one unit of residency)
Second Year
Fall Semester	#Units
Bus 600 Strategies for Competitive Advantage	1
Bus 601 Economic Analysis for Business	3
Bus 602 Accounting and Financial Analysis	3
Bus 603 Statistics for Business Decisions	3
Bus 605 Marketing Management	3
Total Units: 13 (one unit of residency; eight cross-count credits toward JD)
Interterm
Bus 613 Managerial Accounting	2
Total Units: 2 (zero residency)
Spring Semester
Bus 604 Organization Design and Behavior Corporations	3
Bus 607 Managerial Finance	3
Bus 609 Business Analytics	3
Corporations	3
Total Units: 12 (zero residency)
Third Year
Fall Semester	#Units
Bus 606 Operations and Technology Mgmt	3
Bus 610 Understanding the Global Business Env.	4
Evidence (may be taken in fall or spring)	4
Federal Income Taxation (must be taken in Third Year, fall or spring)	3
Constitutional Law (may move Con Law I to Fall Fourth Year and substitute 3-credit law elective here)	4
Professional Responsibility (may move PR to Spring Third Year to earn residency there instead)	2
Total Units: 20 (one unit of residency)
Spring Semester
Bus 612 Strategic Management	4
Law Elective (/Writing Requirement?)	3
Law Electives (/Skills Course?)	4
Total Units: 11 (zero residency)
Fourth Year
Fall Semester	#Units
MBA Elective (may be taken in fall or spring)	3
Law Electives	14
Total Units: 17 (one unit of residency)
Spring Semester
Law Electives	14
Total Units: 14 (one unit of residency)
Total Units for All Semesters: 118