Business (JD/MBA)

1. Complete the first year of the JD program in the first year of study, including one 2000-level MBA elective course.
2. Complete the first year of the MBA program in the second year of study.
3. Achieve a "Pass with merit" average from those first-year courses taken at the Faculty of Law and a "B+" average from those first-year courses taken at the Rotman School of Management in order to progress to the upper years of the program.
4. Successfully complete 45 credits at the Faculty of Law in the third and fourth years of the program, including all JD graduation requirements. Students are encouraged to earn 46 credits, but 45 will be accepted. JD/MBA students must also complete at least 10 credits that are “management-related”. These courses can be identified in the Faculty of Law Academic Handbook under the following areas of concentration:
   • Administrative Law and Regulation
   • Business Law
   • Law and Economics
   • Labour Law and Social Justice law.
5. Successfully complete the remaining nine 2000-level MBA elective courses at the Rotman School of Management in the third and fourth years of the program. 
6. Students may not take any courses for credit outside of the faculties of Law and Management except on an approved exchange program with permission from both faculties.

Note: Notwithstanding the Faculty of Management's course selection process, students must meet the Faculty of Law course selection deadline and may not select more than 16 LAW credits per term.

Please note the following JD/MBA course restrictions
Students are excluded from taking courses of a combined law/management nature due to their general or introductory nature as specialists in both management and law. As such, students in the combined JD/MBA program are not eligible to enroll in the following courses:

• Management: MGT2912 Business Law; 

• Law: LAW 272 Negotiation

Each year, there are a number of courses which are cross-listed between the Rotman School of Management and the Faculty of Law. In such cases, students are advised that for the purposes of academic credit, these courses will count as follows:

LAW300 The Art of the Deal: counts as a Law course

Students enrolled in joint programs MUST complete the requirements of both programs in order to graduate in a combined program. No diplomas will be awarded until all the requirements for a combined program are fulfilled. The JD/MBA program requires students to enroll in the Rotman School for the last three years of the degree. Please note that this change in registration means that the student is no longer a law student. This can affect the student's fees and student union membership, which can have significant consequences to a variety of requirements and benefits (e.g., health insurance coverage).

Candidates for the JD/MBA Program must be admitted to both the Faculty of Law and the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. As a result, candidates need to meet the admission requirements of both faculties, including writing the LSAT and GMAT and payment of the prescribed application fees of each. The GMAT is waived for candidates who have been admitted to and will enroll in the JD program at U of T Law.

Students who have completed the first year of either the JD or MBA program may also apply for admission to the combined JD/MBA Program by meeting the normal application and admission requirement for the other faculty and upon notifying their faculty registrar.