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Does the JD/MBA make you that much more employable? What kind of positions are exclusively for JD/MBA graduates and how much do they pay? Is this degree as good as an MBA? How valuable is just the MBA right now?

This isn't a yes or no question. It depends on each person.

totally man

like, a worthless jd and a worthless mba are like a mindblowing SUPER COMBO for employers it gives them hard ons.

You generally end up using the JD or the MBA, so for most jobs, I think it's not worth the time/money. But the schools at which a JD/MBA makes most sense are Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Columbia, and possibly NYU.

Good luck at TJSL btw.

Still trolling strong after all these years.

Neither degree is worthless. The school of law turns 50% of students in the class into lawyers. If the graduate school did the same then you would think you have a 75% chance of employment. However, I doubt business is suffering the same way so I suspect the business degree might be worth it for many students - maybe 50% of those who take the program. The employment rate hardly increases as you climb the tiers and yet it becomes much more competitive. Cardozo for example turns 50% of the class into lawyers and Fordham only creates 65% yet the numbers at fordham are so much more competitive. The 25th percentile at Fordham could be expected to place at median at Cardozo and be in a better position to get a job.

This is a good point. Since a JD/MBA gives you a 75% chance of employment, I think it makes sense to get a JD/MBA/PhD, which will give you an 87.5% chance of employment.

wiz wrote:This is a good point. Since a JD/MBA gives you a 75% chance of employment, I think it makes sense to get a JD/MBA/PhD, which will give you an 87.5% chance of employment.

Assuming a 50% chance of employment with a PhD yeah. There is no reason to believe that a law student would have a lesser chance than the rest of the class at finding employment with an MBA.

What I am trying to determine in this thread is: the rate of employment in the field of applicants with MBA's and the rate of employment for those with low tier MBA's.
I suspect that the rate of employment is higher since the legal field has been hit worse by the recession.

john1990 wrote:Neither degree is worthless. The school of law turns 50% of students in the class into lawyers. If the graduate school did the same then you would think you have a 75% chance of employment.

Why would you assume that employability as a lawyer and employability as an MBA are independent?

Can someone permaban for general pointlessness/stupidity/failure to troll well?

redsox wrote:

john1990 wrote:Neither degree is worthless. The school of law turns 50% of students in the class into lawyers. If the graduate school did the same then you would think you have a 75% chance of employment.

Why would you assume that employability as a lawyer and employability as an MBA are independent?

Can someone permaban for general pointlessness/stupidity/failure to troll well?

They have different employers and a separate market.

The JD/MBA is a worthy discussion. Stop crying to the admin's your contribution is nominal

nah bro your math is all wrong

so if you have a 50% chance of being a lawyer coming out of law school, and a 50% chance of being employed as a business person with an MBA, and a 60% chance of being an academic with a PhD, you'd have an 160% chance of being employed as one of those three, which actually means you'd be employed in the past as anything >100% diminishes the closer you get to x-date.

ill give you an example of an interview a jd/mba/phd/ms/mpa had recently

applicant: so can i have this job
interviewer: what do you mean you've had this job for almost two years here is your check
applicant: whoa

How are you going to get a JD/MBA when TJSL is a stand alone law school?

twentypercentmore wrote:nah bro your math is all wrong

so if you have a 50% chance of being a lawyer coming out of law school, and a 50% chance of being employed as a business person with an MBA, and a 60% chance of being an academic with a PhD, you'd have an 90% chance of being employed as one of those three.

Having more degrees does give you a higher chance of finding employment.

californiauser wrote:How are you going to get a JD/MBA when TJSL is a stand alone law school?

I am going to drive there

californiauser wrote:How are you going to get a JD/MBA when TJSL is a stand alone law school?

There's no TJSB?

john1990 wrote:

californiauser wrote:How are you going to get a JD/MBA when TJSL is a stand alone law school?

I am going to drive there

Just make sure you cop a big scholarship to keep dat COA down.

john1990 wrote:

californiauser wrote:How are you going to get a JD/MBA when TJSL is a stand alone law school?

I am going to drive there

?

They have an agreement with SDSU. I cannot find their career statistics

john1990 wrote:

redsox wrote:Why would you assume that employability as a lawyer and employability as an MBA are independent?

Can someone permaban for general pointlessness/stupidity/failure to troll well?

They have different employers and a separate market.

The JD/MBA is a worthy discussion. Stop crying to the admin's your contribution is nominal

Yeah but the same applicant. The traits - resume, personality, interview skills - that make you (un)employable with a JD are the same things that will make you (un)employable with an MBA.

You guys have the math wrong.

50% employment for JD + 50% employment for MBA = 100% jerb. See? It's a fail-safe plan!

john1990 wrote:

redsox wrote:

john1990 wrote:Neither degree is worthless. The school of law turns 50% of students in the class into lawyers. If the graduate school did the same then you would think you have a 75% chance of employment.

Why would you assume that employability as a lawyer and employability as an MBA are independent?

Can someone permaban for general pointlessness/stupidity/failure to troll well?

They have different employers and a separate market.

The JD/MBA is a worthy discussion. Stop crying to the admin's your contribution is nominal

How do you have 1000+ posts and no knowledge of how to use the search function?

heythatslife wrote:You guys have the math wrong.

50% employment for JD + 50% employment for MBA = 100% jerb. See? It's a fail-safe plan!

thats 100% mba

I couldn't get any results for jd/mba

john1990 wrote:I couldn't get any results for jd/mba

False

Pancakes12 wrote:

john1990 wrote:I couldn't get any results for jd/mba

False

link or gtfo. I used forum search and punched in jd/mba at the top