JURIS DOCTOR/MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY

J.D./M.P.P. degree candidates must satisfactorily complete all course requirements of both the J.D. and M.P.P. degrees. In addition to the J.D. and M.P.P. degrees, a Joint Program Certificate will be awarded upon satisfactory completion of the program. The J.D./M.P.P. program requires completion of 115 academic credits (76* credits in law and 39 credits in M.P.P. courses).

The required 115 J.D./M.P.P. credit hours are distributed as follows:

• 31* credits in the required first-year law curriculum;
• 21 required M.P.P. credits taken during the second or third year: Introduction to Microtheory; Public Finance; Public Policy Process; Public Management; Ethics Values and Public Policy; Statistical Methods for Policy Analysis (formerly Quantitative Methods I); and Regression Methods for Policy Analysis (formerly Quantitative Methods II);
• 9 credits of M.P.P. required courses taken in the third or fourth year: Advanced Regression & Program Evaluation Methods and a two-semester thesis;
  9 credits of M.P.P. elective courses taken in the second, third, and fourth years;
• 10 required J.D. credits: Administrative Law; Constitutional Law II; and Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (Administrative Law is not required for students who have completed Government Processes in Curriculum B);
• 35 credits in additional J.D. courses, including Professional Responsibility and a course meeting the legal writing requirement, taken in the third and fourth years; and
• Residency Requirement (see J.D. Program section).
  
  

A typical distribution of the 114 semester hours in the J.D./M.P.P. Program is as follows:
First year: 31* J.D. credits
Second year: 24 M.P.P. credits
Third Year: 21 J.D. credits
9 M.P.P. credits
Fourth Year: 24 J.D. credits
6 M.P.P. credits

* 1 fewer credits is required for students who completed the first-year law curriculum in the 2005-06 or 2006-07 academic years. 2 fewer credits are required for students who completed the first-year law curriculum prior to the 2005-06 academic year.