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Southwestern has joined forces with The Drucker Graduate School of Management to create concurrent-degree programs that will expand students' educational and career options. Students at Southwestern and the Drucker School, part of Claremont Graduate University (CGU), will be able to earn a J.D. and Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), a J.D. and Master of Arts in Management (M.A.M.), or a J.D. and Executive Master of Business Administration (E.M.B.A.).
The combination of legal training and management skills is increasingly in demand, and this new collaboration presents an excellent opportunity for both Southwestern law students and Drucker management students to expand their academic credentials and professional opportunities. The collaboration reflects the two institutions' core values and the genuine desire to prepare graduates not only for fulfilling careers, but to make a positive difference in society. In the future, the affiliation may yield joint research activities and publications, co-sponsorship of certification programs, seminars and academic symposia, sharing of course materials and curricula, and other cooperative efforts.
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Southwestern students who pursue the J.D./M.B.A. degree will have 16 of the units earned at Southwestern applied to the 60 units required for the M.B.A. They will complete the additional 44 units at Drucker. This will enable them to complete both degrees within 4 to 4 1/2 years. A shorter Executive M.B.A. track will also be an option for students with extensive management experience. Law students who wish to earn the J.D./M.A.M. degree will apply 6 units completed at Southwestern towards the 32-unit Master of Arts in Management degree. The remaining 26 units will be completed at Drucker. The duration of this concurrent degree is 4 years.
Students from The Drucker School who wish to pursue the J.D./M.B.A., will have 16 units earned through the Drucker M.B.A. program applied to the 87 units required for the J.D. degree. They will complete a minimum of an additional 71 units at Southwestern. This will enable them to complete both degrees within 4 to 4 1/2 years. Drucker students may choose a curricular concentration such as entertainment law, international law, business law or public interest law at Southwestern.
"This new collaboration presents a splendid opportunity for Southwestern to expand our law students' academic credentials and career opportunities and to encourage promising Drucker management students with a wide range of skills and interests to pursue a legal education at Southwestern."
- Dean Bryant G. Garth
The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management is one of the nation's premier management schools. Like the other Claremont graduate programs, Drucker is small, with 400 students and 14 core faculty, allowing for a personalized and practical, yet reflective learning experience. Named for management guru Peter F. Drucker and international retailing giant Masatoshi Ito, the Drucker School views management as an art as well as a science, integrating within its curriculum perspectives from a wide variety of disciplines including the social and behavioral sciences, philosophy, the humanities, history, technology, religion and mathematics. Drucker espouses the view that executive leadership is "a moral endeavor requiring both character and competence - moral courage as well as analytical insight." The school aims to train effective managers and ethical leaders who make a difference in the lives and institutions they touch by infusing them with high values, defining common purpose, and bringing dignity to human interaction. Drucker's faculty is recognized as one of the top business faculties in the country, and the school is often cited for its leadership in advancing ethical values and social responsibility. The campus is part of the Claremont College Consortium (CGU, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Pomona, Scripps and Harvey Mudd), known as "the Oxford of America," located in Claremont, California, about an hour east of Southwestern and in close proximity to a Metrolink train station.
Additional information and application procedures for the concurrent-degree programs will be available in the coming weeks.
Contact
Molly Selvin at Southwestern
Email: mselvin@swlaw.edu
Phone: (213) 738-6624
Brandon Tuck at The Drucker School
Email: drucker@cgu.edu
Phone: (909) 607-7811
