URBAN PLANNING / LAW
This program leads to the Master of Urban Planning and the J.D. degree of the School of Law. A total of 115 credit hours is required, comprising 39 hours in urban planning and 76 hours in law. Applicants must meet admission requirements of both the School of Law and the Graduate Program in Urban Planning. The former includes the Law School Admission Test (LSAT).
A student in this program must take all 21 credit hours of required Urban Planning courses plus nine hours in an area of concentration plus six hours of Urban Planning electives. Nine hours of Law courses may be cross-counted towards the 48 hours needed for the M.U.P. degree. The student must take 76 hours of Law courses; 14 hours of Urban Planning courses may be cross-counted towards the 90 hours needed for the J.D. degree. The program can be completed in four years. See also Law.