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I'm currently a Junior with Senior standing at a top 20 public university. I have to decide between three options:

1. Graduate early at the end of this year and begin working to save money (Would rather not do this).
2. Graduate at the end of next year by taking an easy course load and using the extra time to prepare applications.
3. Apply to my university's 1 year MPP program and receive an MPP before applying to law school.

I plan to go into healthcare law so an MPP with a specialization in health policy will undoubtedly be useful to me. My main questions are: Will the MPP help my chances of being admitted to law school in any way? Will having an advanced degree help my chances of finding employment after law school? I plan to work for a year between the completion of the MPP and applying to law school, but will it appear to adcomms that I am degree collecting?

Any insight or advice on this topic would be great.

MPP will not help job prospects or admissions chances.

oil wrote:MPP will not help job prospects or admissions chances.

probably unintentional flame, while the rule of thumb is that ug gpa and lsat are the most important, grad degrees will help when borderline for admissions and especially for a pertinent field


for admissions it'd be a decent soft, perhaps additionally a good topic for an essay
at the very least a feather on the scale


for job prospects might be fairly good
certain fields like IP are known for necessitating a stem background and while i don't know as much about health policy law, i can only imagine this would help - especially coming as a k-jd