Best Joint MBA/JD Program?

<p>Which Graduate School?</p>

<p>I say Harvard again</p>

<p>Any school that pretty much has a good MBA and a good JD program. Harvard and NYU are two schools I can think of. You usually have to apply to each program separately and get into both before you do a joint degree.</p>

<p>I heard of a woman who is apparently trying to stitch together an adhoc MBA/JD program, doing her MBA at Harvard Business School, and her JD at Yale Law. I would argue that that joint MBA/JD program is the best I have ever heard of. </p>

<p>Of course this woman is none other than Lisa Schwartz, one of the few people in history to have ever achieved a perfect GPA at Harvard College.</p>

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<p>That's incredible. Heard of anyone else doing a JD/MBA program with two different schools?</p>

<p>That had to be expensive...but it's still admirable.</p>

<p>Lisa Schwartz, 21, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.</p>

<p>• Home: East Hills, N.Y.
• Major: Government
• Career goal: Government service
• GPA: 4.0
• Class: Senior
• Parents: Ronald, Barbara Schwartz
Working with Bulgarian students, lawyers and academics, she founded Justice For All to increase Bulgarians' access to the justice system, training volunteers and writing pamplets to help them navigate the system; as chair of the Harvard Youth for Political Empowerment, organized $30,000 political awareness festival and shadowing program for high school students; Truman Scholar; mock trial president; news editor, Harvard Crimson; internships at United Nations Security Council, U.S. Supreme Court, Department of Justice.</p>

<p>I would think a program like that would be well worth the expense.</p>

<p>I don't think the program is any more expensive than a normal MBA/JD program. The idea is that you will be able to shave off one year from getting both an MBA and a JD (hence total of 4 years), regardless of whether you complete the MBA and JD at the same university of at different universities.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that the various school at Harvard operate largely independently off each other. Yes, there are some cross-reg opportunities among the various schools, as well as some pooling of library and administrative resources. But the fact is, if you go to Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, you are effectively going to 2 completely different schools anyway, with different registration requirements, different cultures, different resources, etc. Hence, it's not that much different from going to Yale Law + Harvard Business School.</p>