To accommodate students who contemplate a career where business and law overlap, the Law School and the Hankamer School of Business offer a dual degree program that leads to the simultaneous award of Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees.<br><br>The JD/MBA program strives to improve the effectiveness of both business managers and legal counsel for business entities by training each to understand the role of the other and the importance of their respective contributions to the successful operation of a business. JD/MBA students are encouraged to pursue a concentrated course of study at the Law School in Business Transactions or Business Litigation.<br><br>Students receive twelve hours of credit toward their JD upon the successful completion of the required MBA courses and twelve hours of elective credit toward their elective requirement for the MBA upon successful completion of law school coursework. Thus, JD/MBA students complete 114 quarter hours of law courses and twenty-four semester hours of graduate business courses. Since both degrees are awarded simultaneously, all requirements in both schools must be completed in order to receive either degree.<br><br>Students generally complete the dual JD/MBA program in three-and-a-half to four years. All MBA students begin the program by participating in a four-week set of classes called Business Frameworks. These classes serve as a primer for the MBA curriculum and consist of one credit hour of each of the following: accounting, finance, Excel, and statistics. JD/MBA students start the business portion of their coursework in July and with completion by May the following year.