JD/MHA Joint Degree

Designed and administered with the cooperation of the Law School and the School of Public Health

Full-Time MHA Program
D262 Mayo, School of Public Health
Phone: 612-624-8818
Fax: 612-626-8328
www.sph.umn.edu/education/mha

Law School Joint Degree Programs
N140 Mondale Hall
Phone: 612-625-3356
Fax: 612-624-9143
www.jointdegree.umn.edu

Enrolling

A student interested in pursuing the JD/MHA joint degree must be admitted separately to the Law School and to the full-time MHA Program within the School of Public Health (SPH). A student may apply to both units simultaneously or in staggered fashion.

Students are strongly encouraged to begin with enrollment in the Law School, completing the Law School's required first-year curriculum so that they may then concentrate on their MHA studies while taking upper-level Law courses as they fit into the student's program.

The Law School and SPH will defer the deadlines for registration for JD/MHA joint degree students for one year and any guarantee of financial aid for the same period. Deferral at either the Law School or SPH is conditional on the student enrolling in the other unit without deferral. Students accepted into the JD/MHA degree combination will be considered for no more than a one year deferral of matriculation and registration. A student may decide while in the first year in either SPH or the Law School or their second year of Law School to apply to the other degree program with the assurance that the cross-crediting/double-counting of courses described further below will be available.

The Law School must be informed of student responses to offers of admission and any desire to defer admission by April 15; SPH must be informed by April 15. Those dates are subject to change. Joint Degree Program students will ideally accept both offers of admission by April 15.

Application Deadlines

The Law School application deadline is April 1. Rolling application review begins October 1. Early application is advantageous.
The MHA Program application deadline is March 15.
Applications can be found at each Program's website, above.

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