<p>they say that no question is a stupid question so im gona be brave and ask this: can one go to grad school for business and law at the same time? or you have to do one then the other? and how long do each take?</p>
<p>alright, be easy on me heh</p>
<p>The short answer is Yep... it's very common these days... a joint MBA/JD program. It usually takes 3+ years.</p>
<p>yeah JD/MBA, usually 4 years. you have to get admitted seperately by both adcoms, which is the tricky part bcuz MBA admissions usually requires/prefers work experience while for law admissions it isnt a requirement. </p>
<p>first year is law, second year is business, and third and fourth years are both law and business. </p>
<p>kelly perdew from the apprentice has a JD/MBA from UCLA.</p>
<p>The prep work for the degree is also tremendous as you have to have great scores on both the LSAT and the GMAT.</p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about the program offered at Georgetown?</p>
<p>Here is the information about the JD/MBA program at Georgetown:</p>
<p>Thanks, sallyawp, for that helpful information. Just curious, but are you in that program yourself?</p>
<p>No, I got my JD/MBA several years ago elsewhere.</p>
<p>sally, do you think that the law/business degree is worth the amount of work that must be put into obtaining one. does someone with a JD/MBA make significantly more than a person with only an MBA?</p>
<p>I don't know statistically whether someone with a JD/MBA makes significantly more than a person with only an MBA. I think that you can learn very different things and very different skill sets from each of the degrees. In other words, even if the ultimate effect is that I might make more money that someone with just a JD or just an MBA (and I have no idea whether or not this is true), I don't think that it is all about the money. In my personal experience, I feel that having chosen to work as a corporate attorney, the MBA has won me a tremendous amount of credibility with my colleagues on the business side and has enabled me to understand better the big picture so that I can better help my clients. </p>
<p>While I wouldn't change anything about having gotten a JD/MBA, there are a lot of opportunity costs and actual tuition costs involved in one extra year of school for someone who would otherwise get a JD and two extra years of school for someone who would otherwise get an MBA. Don't overlook these considerations.</p>
<p>The JD/MBA can be great for corporate law, but I heard it's more suited to business professionals (i.e. i-bankers in M&A, consultants, accountants in transaction services or tax) who want to know law than lawyers who want to know business.</p>
<p>There are plenty of practicing lawyers around out there who have their MBAs. Granted, I doubt that too many litigators have bothered, but it's not at all uncommon.</p>