OXFORD, Miss. — Following a national trend to make higher education more “user-friendly,” the University of Mississippi schools of Engineering and Law have joined forces to create a new program that provides early admission to the latter.
Through the accelerated law program, students in the general engineering pre-law program can be admitted into a fast-tracked Bachelor of Engineering and law degree program. Juniors who have maintained a 3.6 grade-point average and passed the LSAT with a minimum score of 160 can be admitted early to law school.
“If they are admitted to the program, in their engineering senior year they are simultaneously the first-year law students and will be taking the first-year law courses,” said Alex Cheng, dean of the engineering school. “At the end of four years, students are granted a B.E. degree. In another two years, they earn a law degree. Hence, rather than the traditional four-plus-three years for a law degree, it becomes three-plus-three.” Read the entire story.