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Southwestern has joined forces with The Drucker Graduate School of Management to create concurrent-degree programs that expand students' educational and career options. Students at Southwestern and The Drucker School, part of Claremont Graduate University (CGU), are now 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 schools have also expanded their cooperative concurrent-degree program offerings to include an exciting three-year JD/MBA option. The new program is one of only a few at law schools nationwide and the first on the West Coast to offer students the opportunity to earn both degrees in just three years.
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.
"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
Degree Requirements
Southwestern students pursuing the traditional J.D./M.B.A. degree can apply 16 of the units earned at the law school to the 60 units required for the M.B.A. They complete the additional 44 units at Drucker. This enables them to complete both degrees within 4 to 4 and a half years. (Click here to see information on the three-year JD/MBA as part of its accelerated SCALE® program.) A 48-unit Executive M.B.A. track is another option in which law students with extensive management experience can apply 10 units from their Southwestern courses, leaving 38 units to complete at Drucker. Law students who wish to earn the J.D./M.A.M. degree can apply 6 units completed at Southwestern towards the 32-unit Master of Arts in Management degree. The remaining 26 units are to be completed at Drucker. The duration of this concurrent degree is 4 years.
Students from The Drucker School pursuing the J.D./M.B.A. can apply 16 units earned through the Drucker M.B.A. program to the 87 units required for the J.D. degree. They complete a minimum of an additional 71 units at Southwestern.
About The Drucker School of Management
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 University 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.
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Contact
Molly Selvin, Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs at Southwestern
Email: jdmba@swlaw.edu
Phone: (213) 738-6624
Brandon Tuck, Admissions and Recruiting at Drucker
Email: drucker@cgu.edu
Phone: (909) 607-7811
