When it comes to standing out in a crowded marketplace, a dual degree can have a big impact. In less time than it takes to pursue each degree individually, you can graduate with two degrees.
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With a dual degree you can advance your career faster at IU McKinney School of Law
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Basically, you make yourself incredibly marketable
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To employers. You carve out a niche for yourself
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In your preferred field
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There's just a ton of opportunities that you get
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With the dual degree that you wouldn't
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necessarily get with just a law degree
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I feel like it gives me a perspective more from both sides
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When I'm in an interview they like to hear how it gives me
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a different perspective
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Obtaining a dual degree saves both time and money
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as apposed to earning a JD and another advanced degree
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separately
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IU McKinney offers a variety of options
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Partnering with top IU schools in a metropolotin setting
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JD students can earn a master of business administration
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Master of public affairs
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Health administration
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Public health, health administration
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Master of arts in philosophy with
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a concentration in health law bioethics
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Master of arts in Philanthropic
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studies
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Master of library and information sciences
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and master of social work
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You become an expert in not only the legal
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side of things but also the graduate programs
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side of things
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I want to use the masters degree to
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put myself in more leadership kind of roles
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within that setting
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and McKinney's location enhances
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dual degree opportunities
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The law school being where it is there are
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obviously a lot of connects in different
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fields in Indianapolis
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In fact that's how I've been
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able to get my internships is through
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connections and people
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are looking for students both kinds of
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training
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Theres just so many we have Eli Lilly
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we have Roach we have all of these right there
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Having a connection to the business community
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the law community there's
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just everything here you could possibly want
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Think a dual degree is right for you?
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You have to be a forward
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thinker
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Just know there are advisors like
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myself here to help you
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and to make that journey easier
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and the outcome is so worth
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the hard work
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Advance your career faster
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with a dual degree at
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IU McKinney School of Law
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Dual Degrees
The McKinney J.D. degree, complete with the theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and hands-on experience that all of our graduates receive, is the first degree. The second is a graduate degree from one of our eight partner schools.
The second degree imparts an extensive knowledge base and a skill set that gives you a substantial edge over your competition and prepares you well for a career in a specialized field. More information about each is listed below...
Students wishing to pursue a dual degree must submit the Dual Degree Intent Form.
If you want to practice law involving business clients, work in a corporate law department, or work in a government agency regulating business, this is the degree for you. As a candidate in this program, you will spend your first year in law school and then take graduate business courses and law courses concurrently for the remainder of the program.
Requirements: 80 credit hours of law courses; 39 credit hours of business courses.
For additional information contact:
IU Kelley School of Business Graduate Programs
Business/SPEA Building 3024
801 W. Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5151
Phone: (317) 274-4895
Fax: (317) 274-2483
Email: mbaindy@iu.edu
This program prepares you to understand and work within the legal and managerial frameworks of public service, nonprofit, and quasi-governmental institutions. In the final year of the program, you’ll complete a research paper on a topic in both areas of study that will be supervised by faculty advisors from both schools.
Requirements: Requirements: 84 credit hours of law courses; 30 credit hours of courses with the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs; research paper.
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
801 West Michigan Street, BS 3025
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone 317.274.4656
Email: oneillqa@iu.edu
Or
Cynthia A. Baker, Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Program on Law and State Government
Faculty Advisor and Joint J.D./M.P.A. Degree Liaison
IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: 317-278-2357
Email: cabaker@iu.edu
Pursue this program if you want to become a health lawyer or health care administrator. It will prepare you to understand and manage the legal and administrative structures of health services. [view brochure]
You will be required to attain a specialization and complete a research paper on a topic in both areas of study, supervised by faculty advisors from both schools. As a candidate in this program, you will complete your first year in the law school and divide remaining coursework between the two schools.
Requirements: 82 credit hours of law courses; 45 credit hours of Department of Public Health courses; research paper.
For additional information contact:
IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
714 N. Senate, EF 250
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5150
Email: fsphinfo@iu.edu
This program can help you to understand and shape the role of the law in promoting public health. It can also help you to pursue a career in regulating the financing and delivery of health care services. Professional opportunities include government health or environmental agencies, private firms, and universities. [view brochure]
As a candidate in this program, you will study law courses your first year, mostly public health courses your second year, and primarily law courses in your third and fourth years, including internships in health or environmental law.
You will also be required to complete a research paper on a topic that addresses both law and health. This paper satisfies both the Advanced Research and Writing Requirement in the School of Law and the concentration project in the Department of Public Health.
Requirements: 82 credit hours of law courses; 45* credit hours of public health courses; research paper.
For additional information contact:
Elijah G. Barry, MS Ed
IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Health Sciences, RG 5192
1050 Wishard Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Email: ebarry@iu.edu
* 39 MPH credit hours are required to fulfill your MPH degree. To get to a total of 45 credit hours as stated above, six credits are taken from your completed electives in the JD program. These six JD elective credits are not in addition to your required 82 legal credits.
The joint J.D./M.D. program is designed to enable you to obtain dual J.D. and M.D. degrees in six years instead of seven years and provides you with valuable interdisciplinary work experience in the areas of public health, health policy, and life sciences.
You will be required to gain independent acceptance to the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law and the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Requirements: 84 credit hours of standard law courses; the remaining 6 credit hours required for the J.D.may be medical courses taken through the Indiana University School of Medicine.
For additional information contact:
Hall Center for Law and Health
IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 136D
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225
Phone: 317-274-1951
Email: centerlh@iu.edu
Aspiring attorneys who seek to work either in a legal capacity for nonprofit or philanthropic clients, or as high-level managers, officers, and board members of nonprofit or philanthropic enterprises should consider this joint degree. A variety of fields intersect with the skill sets for this joint degree including higher education, health care, arts, social services, and other areas. Potential positions include law firms with nonprofit or philanthropic clients, in-house counsel for large nonprofit or philanthropic enterprises, personal financial and legal advisors, foundation program officers, family foundation principals, professional fundraisers, corporate executives, nonprofit board members, and corporate social responsibility officers. Students who successfully complete this joint degree program will receive a Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) from the Robert H. McKinney School of Law and a Master of Arts in Philanthropic Studies (M.A.) degree from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Requirements: 84 credit hours of law courses; 24 credit hours of philanthropic studies.
For additional information contact:
Professor Robert Katz
IU McKinney School of Law
Phone: (317) 278-4791
E-Mail: rokatz@iu.edu
Or
Kathi Badertscher
Lecturer of Philanthropic Studies; Director of Master’s Degree Programs
IUI Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Phone: (317) 278-8950
E-mail: kcoon@iu.edu
The demand for law librarians with dual degrees in law and library and information science has increased dramatically in recent years. The joint J.D./M.L.I.S. degree prepares you for a career as a law librarian in academic, governmental, and law firm settings.
As a candidate in this program, you will study law courses during your first year, adding courses from the the Department of Library and Information Science in the School of Informatics and Computing during the remaining three years.
You will be required to participate in a law library internship and write a research paper covering a topic that is relevant to both areas and supervised by faculty members from both schools.
Requirements: 84 credit hours of law courses; 30 credit hours of library and information science courses; research paper; law library internship.
For additional information contact:
Department of Library and Information Science
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
University Libraries
535 W. Michigan Street IT475
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: 317-278-4636
Email: luddylis@iu.edu
This program provides you with unique knowledge and skills to meet the challenges of serving vulnerable populations and combating injustice.
As a candidate in this program, you will study law courses during your first year. Your second year will be spent primarily in the School of Social Work pursuing the required core curriculum for the M.S.W. degree.
You will be required to complete a concentration in the School of Social Work in the second through fourth years of the program, which includes a social work practicum/internship.You will also be required to write a research paper on a topic that addresses the fields of law and social work and is designed to meet the advanced writing requirements of the law school.
Requirements: 82 credit hours of law courses; 51 credit hours of social work courses; social work practicum/internship; research paper.
For additional information contact:
Michelle Smith
Student Services Coordinator and Recruitment Specialist
IU School of Social Work
Education/Social Work Building, ES 4134B,
902 W. New York St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Email: miksmith@iu.edu
