Law and Economics

Florida State Law views the joint J.D./M.S. in Economics as an integral part of its focus on Law, Business and Economics. Students in this joint degree program not only take graduate classes in the economics department and the law school, but they also enjoy the opportunity to work on academic projects at the law school with professors doing cutting-edge research on the intersection of law and both empirical and theoretical economics. The law school offers some scholarships for select students interested in pursuing this joint degree.

Applicants must apply for admission to both colleges.

Both the GRE and LSAT must be taken in order to be considered. Applicants to the economics department must have a bachelor's degree, an upper division (junior and senior) grade point average of 3.0 or better and a minimum combined score of 1,000 on the verbal and quantitative portions of the GRE. At the College of Law, for the Fall 2009 entering class, the average LSAT score was a 161 and the median GPA was a 3.53.

Once a student is accepted to both colleges, they must complete an application for the joint degree program. The application is available at Florida State Law's Office of Admissions, or can be accessed by clicking here. This normally is done during the first year of law school. The first year of study is generally done at the law school.