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INTEGRATED M.B.A./LL.B. PROGRAM


This special program provides students interested in a career which combines legal and business management skills with an opportunity to complete both the M.B.A. and the LL.B. degrees in four years.

It is administered by a Committee of Directors composed of the Associate Deans of the Odette School of Business and the Faculty of Law, and three members of each Faculty.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The admissions procedure for the integrated program consists of two stages. At the first stage, students applying to the program must meet the admission requirements of both faculties. Therefore separate applications must be committed to the Faculty of Law and the College of Graduate Studies and Research for admission to the regular degree programs in Law and Business Administration. To facilitate academic and career planning, it is strongly suggested that these applications be made simultaneously. Students who are accepted to both the M.B.A. and LL.B. programs, and have indicated a desire to follow the integrated program, will proceed to attend first year in either faculty. Such students will be granted a deferred admission to the other faculty in the program contingent upon acceptance to the integrated program after the first year of study.

While attending first year, the student must apply to the Committee of Directors for admission to the M.B.A./ LL.B. program. The intensity of the program demands a committed and highly motivated student, and accordingly, certain minimum academic requirements have been established. Students applying to the program at this stage must achieve standing in the top one third of the first-year class in the school in which they have enrolled and must meet the grade standards set out below. Students who do not meet this requirement will not be considered for the integrated program, but are free to complete their studies in the faculty attended, or to re-apply for admission to the second faculty for the regular course of study.

The Committee of Directors will interview all eligible applicants and selection of candidates will be made on the basis of the following criteria:

(a) the applicant's career plan and its appropriateness to the program;
(b) an assessment of the applicant's ability to complete a rigorous course of study successfully;
(c) all relevant elements of the applicant's profile compared with those of all other candidates.

Successful candidates will receive an acceptance to the integrated program subject to the condition that to remain in the program he or she must complete the second year of the program with a standing in the top one third of the class and meet the grade standard.

The Committee of Directors will also consider the applications of persons for entry to the program who have not earlier complied with the foregoing procedures, and who are enrolled in either of the Faculties of Law or Graduate Studies and Research; these persons will have demonstrated high academic achievement and appropriate vocational and personal commitment.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

Faculty of Law November 1 (LL.B.)
College of Graduate Studies and Research June 1 (M.B.A.)
For application materials please contact the following separately:

Ontario Law School Application Service
Ontario Universities' Application Centre
170 Research Lane
Guelph, Ontario
N1G 5E2

College of Graduate Studies and Research
M.B.A. Admissions
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario
N9B 3P4

TERM PLANNING

First and Second Years
The first two years of study of the integrated program will consist of the regular first-year programs of each faculty.

Third and Fourth Years
The third and fourth years of the integrated program will be devoted to required and elective courses offered in both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Business Administration.

In the Faculty of Business Administration, program students will be required to take five candidate-level courses. These must include Business Policy 75-698 and four courses selected from a minimum of two of the following areas: Accounting, Administrative Studies, Finance, Management Science, Marketing, and Policy and Strategy. In addition, the M.B.A. major paper or thesis must have a substantial legal component.

In the Faculty of Law, the student will enroll in courses for a minimum of forty credits. These must include Torts, Civil Procedure, one course from the Legal Perspectives Group, and one course requiring a stantial paper that must account for at least 50% of the student's grade in the course. The M.B.A. paper will ordinarily satisfy this requirement, ject to the approval of the Faculty of Law Academic Programs Committee.

In addition to the requirements outlined above, the candidate must choose three additional candidate-level M.B.A. courses or a further three law courses totaling at least nine credit hours or any equivalent combination. The student's elective choices shall be reviewed by the Committee of Directors in light of the student's personal and career objectives, and the necessity of scheduling core business and law courses.

ADVANCEMENT

First and Second Years: Standing in the top third of the class; no Faculty of Law course grade lower than C.

Third and Fourth Years: In courses taken in the Faculty of Business Administration, candidates must attain at least one A- grade and not receive any grades below B. In courses taken in the Faculty of Law, candidates must attain in each year at least one grade of B or above and must not receive any grade lower than C.

Candidates who fail to meet the above standards may be advanced upon the approval of the Committee of Directors if such action is warranted. Candidates who either fail to advance from Second Year to Third Year or who choose to leave the program will be free to continue on for both degrees, but within normal degree requirements, and ject to any conditions set out by the two Faculties. Students leaving the program after Third Year and who have taken the appropriate electives, may petition the Faculty of Business Administration for the M.B.A. degree.

YEAR LAW BUSINESS STREAM
I Law I Qualifying Year -
M.B.A.

II Qualifying Year Law I
-M.B.A.

III* Candidate Year Candidate Year
-M.B.A. -M.B.A.
Law II & III Law II & III

IV* Candidate Year Candidate Year
-M.B.A. - M.B.A.
Law II & III Law II & III

* During Stages III and IV, students will be registered in the College of Graduate Studies and Research. Students must be registered in the College of Graduate Study and Research in order to qualify for graduate awards.

Students with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce Degree
Students holding an Honours B. Comm. degree may obtain both the LL.B. and M.B.A. degrees without the assistance of a special integrated program. However, by submitting applications simultaneously to both the Faculty of Law and the College of Graduate Studies and Research and indicating an interest in the program, such students may be granted a deferred admission to whichever degree program he or she elects to take second. This special deferred admission will be revoked if the applicant's performance in the first program fails to meet the first-year academic standards of the program. In such case the applicant may re-apply for regular admission to the second degree program.

Note: The University reserves the right to make changes in the integrated program and any rules or regulations applying to it.