To accommodate students who contemplate a career where healthcare and law overlap, the Law School and the Robbins MBA Healthcare Program offer a dual degree program that leads to the simultaneous award of a Juris Doctor (JD) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in healthcare administration.<br><br>Healthcare has become an increasingly specialized area of the law, and healthcare administrators are integral to successfully managing hospitals, nursing homes, hospice facilities, insurance companies, provider networks, and government policy organizations. This dual degree program provides appropriate general background courses and specialized healthcare law classes while allowing students to examine healthcare administration's legal and business aspects from multiple perspectives drawn from a cross-section of multidisciplinary expertise.<br><br>Unlike many healthcare administration MBA programs, the Robbins MBA Healthcare Program requires a ninth-month paid Executive Residency with a leading, progressive health organization. With a residency placement rate of 100%, every student can receive guidance from well-qualified, practicing healthcare executives, apply and test administrative theory in practical work situations, and develop leadership skills in an actual healthcare organization.<br><br>Upon completing the required MBA-Healthcare Administration courses, students receive twelve hours of elective credit toward their JDs. Both degrees are awarded simultaneously upon meeting all requirements in both schools.<br><br>Students generally complete the dual JD/MBA program in three-and-a-half to four years. All MBA students begin the program by participating in a four-week set of classes called Business Frameworks. These classes serve as a primer for the MBA curriculum and consist of one credit hour of each of the following: accounting, finance, Excel, and statistics. JD/MBA students start the business portion of their coursework in July and with completion by May the following year.