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2021-2022 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Mar 28, 2024
 
2021-2022 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Law and Business Administration, JD/MBA


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The daily interaction of Law and Business in our society presents attorneys, entrepreneurs, and other professionals with a diverse set of challenges arising from public and private institutions, policies, and practices. A joint degree program can provide valuable interdisciplinary skills to tackle these challenges. To prepare the next generation of leaders, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law offers an outstanding joint degree program in Law and Business with a unique option.

Students may combine a Juris Doctor (JD) degree with a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business, which is in the top 30 of U.S. public business schools according to the U.S. News rankings. The JD/MBA program enables students to receive integrated training in Law and Business while reducing the amount of time ordinarily necessary to earn the two degrees from five years to four years.

Requirements


Students in the JD/MBA program complete the joint degree in either eight (8), nine (9), or ten (10) semesters. During the first four (4) semesters of the program, students must enroll full-time for one (1) entire year at the School of Law and for one (1) entire year at the appropriate School of Business. Students have an option of enrolling either at the School of Law or the School of Business for the first-year of the program. During the third- and fourth-years of the program students enroll in courses at both schools, subject only to availability and each school’s respective upper-level requirements. To graduate from the Law School, students in the JD/MBA program must have five semesters of full-time enrollment (minimum of 10 credits per semester) at the Law School (rather than the six that is normally required).

School of Law

Details about the first-year program at the School of Law can be found on the First-Year Curriculum page.  A full listing of the requirements for graduation from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law can be found on the Graduation Requirements page.

Katz School of Business

To graduate with a JD/Katz MBA degree students must acquire a total of 76 credits from the School of Law and 39 credits from Katz. This means that, after a year at the School of Law and a year at Katz, a student must normally acquire at least 43 additional credits from the School of Law and 3 credits from Katz to graduate with a JD/MBA.

More information can be found on their website.

For Students Interested in Practicing in New York

Please be advised that students who wish to be admitted to practice in New York should not enroll in a joint degree program that entitles the student to more than 12 credits of advance standing at the Law School (i.e., the JD/MBA with the Tepper School of Business). See New York Rules of Court § 520.3(c)(5).

MBA Degree Requirements - 33*


The following core courses are required of all full-time MBA students:

Accelerated MBA, Signature MA, Part-Time MBA and Dual-Degree MBA/MS programs; MBA with Business Analytics students also complete the MBA Core Curriculum with additional credits required from business analytics curriculum. Joint-Degree MBA students also complete the MBA Core Curriculum, with some exceptions.

* On July 27, 2021 the credit requirements for the program were approved to be decreased from 39 to 33 to align with the overall MBA redesign approved in 2019. In order to maintain accurate records the update was made on 9/28/2021.

* In Fall 2022, modifications were approved for the MBA Degree Requirements, retroactive to Fall 2021. Students will have until Summer 2023 to complete old program curriculum requirements. In order to maintain accurate records, updates were made in the catalog on September 14, 2022.

MBA Professional Courses


In addition to the MBA Core Curriculum, MBA students also complete “professional” coursework:

  • Quant Methods for Business
  • Programming for Business
  • Business Communications

The content of these courses is designed to accelerate a students’ academic and personal development as a business professional. The timing, delivery, and credit-load may vary by program (i.e. Accelerated v. Signature v. Part-Time MBA). Any credits earned count toward the minimum 45-credits required for the MBA degree.

  • BIND 2404 - PROBABALITY & STATISTICS: FUNDAMENTALS OF MBA QUANTITATIVE METHODS
  • BIND 2406 - BUSINESS MATH: FUNDAMENTALS OF MBA QUANTITATIVE METHODS
  • BIND 2506 - TIME VALUE OF MONEY: FUNDAMENTALS OF MBA QUANTITATIVE METHODS
  • BMIS 2402 - COMPUTATIONAL THINKING OF BUSINESS LEADERS
  • BOAH 2528 - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR- COMMUNICATING STRATEGICALLY

Note


For detailed term-specific course descriptions, please go to the Schedule of Classes Course Lists on the Law School web site.

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