Dual MBA Degrees

Increase your professional marketability through pursuit of a dual degree. MBA/JD and MBA/MAcc programs are available. Dual degree programs provide the opportunity to simultaneously complete two separate programs in less time with fewer required credit hours than pursuing each program independently. Students must apply separately to the MBA program and the accompanying graduate program.

Dual MBA & MAcc Degrees

The Washburn University School of Business offers a dual degree program to enable students to obtain both a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Accountancy (MAcc) degree during their graduate studies at Washburn.

The MBA program requires up to 24 credit hours of foundation-level courses. This requirement is met either through the completion of undergraduate courses or by taking 500-level courses offered by the School of Business.

The MAcc program requires the equivalent of an undergraduate degree in Accounting prior to admission for the flexible program.

Students must apply separately to and be accepted by both the MBA and MAcc programs. Students will indicate on each application that they are applying to the dual degree program. Students may also choose to join the dual degree program during their course of study at Washburn. If students choose to join the dual degree program after they have started either the MBA or MAcc program, they must apply separately to the other program and be accepted in order to begin the dual degree program. 

Within the dual degree, certain courses are accepted by both programs. Specifically, six credit hours of MBA course work count toward the MAcc degree and six credit hours of MAcc course work count toward the MBA. In addition, both programs share a common required course – EC652 Managerial Economics. As a result, students could complete the MBA/MAcc dual degree program with 45 credit hours of graduate course work.

If the MBA program is taken separately, 30 credit hours of graduate courses are required. Thirty graduate hours are also required if completing the MAcc program separately. (The MAcc program can be completed in either the 3+2 format or the flexible format.) Therefore, if these degrees are pursued separately, a total of 60 credit hours of graduate course work would be required.

Dual MBA and JD Degrees

Recognizing that legal and business studies complement each other and that real-world problems often require solutions from both legal and business perspectives, Washburn University has developed a dual degree program to encourage students to obtain Juris Doctorate and Master of Business Administration degrees during their course of study at Washburn.
Students must apply separately to and be accepted by both schools. Students will indicate to each school, at the time of application that they are applying to the dual degree program. Students will pay tuition for law school courses at the normal rate for that school and will pay tuition for business school courses at the normal rate for that school.

On its own, the J.D. program at the Washburn University School of Law requires 90 credit hours; the MBA program at the Washburn University School of Business requires 30 credit hours of upper-level courses. Thus, pursued separately, the two degrees would require 120 credit hours. Under the dual degree program, certain courses are accepted for credit by both schools: six credit hours of business-related law school courses may count toward the MBA, and six credit hours of business school courses may count toward the J.D. Therefore, students can obtain both degrees with a total of 108 credit hours.

Law school courses that transfer to the business school are those that are business-related (as determined by the business school); business school courses that transfer to the law school are upper-level required courses in which the student earns at least a “B.” (Grades will not transfer between schools; for the transferee school, the courses will be treated as credit/no-credit.) No credits for business school courses will transfer to the law school until the student has obtained 12 credits of upper-level MBA (600 series) business school courses.

Students may choose to begin either their legal studies or their business studies first. Whenever they start the law school program, students must take the full first-year curriculum, all of which consists of required courses, without interruption. Students will not be permitted to take business school courses during the first year of law school. After completing the first year of the law school curriculum, if students simultaneously take courses in both programs, the total number of credits enrolled in at one time must stay within the parameters required by the American Bar Association’s standards governing accredited law schools. Students are also required to participate in the various orientation and assessment activities of both programs.
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