Graduates from Rutgers Law School earn a JD degree.
Rutgers Law School, located in Newark, New Jersey, was founded in 1908. The school prides itself on adhering to its core values of Teaching, Scholarship, Service and Opportunity. Graduates earn a JD degree, but also have the option of attending specialized dual-major programs offering advanced degrees in political science, criminal justice, management, accounting, urban planning, medicine or social work. Someone applying to attend or graduate from Rutgers Law School must fulfill several requirements.
Admissions Prerequisites
Applicants to Rutgers Law School must meet certain prerequisites for admissions consideration. Requirements include a a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) scores. Rutgers applicants are not required to have a degree from any particular major. Students are best prepared for a career in law if they have knowledge and expertise in a wide variety of subjects.
Application Requirements
Rutgers Law School applicants are required to fill out a lengthy application packet. They must provide their name, address, contact information, Social Security number, birthday, sex and race. Applicants must provide their entire educational history leading up to law school, including high school, technical or vocational school, undergraduate and graduate programs attended, whether or not the student's tenure resulted in a degree. Applicants are asked questions regarding their work history between high school and college, during college, during a hiatus (if any) from college, between college and grad school, and during grad school. Types of work experience includes part- time or full-time work for pay, volunteer work, household chores or child rearing. Applicants are also asked to list the types of personal, emotional or financial family responsibilities placed upon them during their undergraduate or graduate school years. This includes organized extracurricular or community activity, as well as whether or not applicants have financed part or all of their undergraduate or graduate tuition. Applicants must list whether they have ever held a foreign residence or served in the armed forces, and to answer several questions regarding professional or criminal misconduct.
Along with the completed application, applicants must also submit official transcripts from all undergraduate or graduate institutions attended, whether or not the student's tenure resulted in a degree, as well as scores from the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) exam. On the law school application, students have the option of choosing whether they want their admissions to be based primarily on their undergraduate and graduate GPA and LSAT scores, or primarily on their experiences and accomplishments.
Graduation Requirements
In order to graduate from Rutgers Law School, JD degree candidates must have completed 6.0 semester residency points, as well as 84 academic credits, 75 of which must not include participating in the school's law journal, law clinic or moot court, or any other unscheduled credit or interdisciplinary coursework. Sixty of the 84 credits must consist of "in-class law" courses. Degree candidates must also pass a semester-long course in legal ethics, as well as complete the graduation writing requirement. The graduation writing requirement can be fulfilled by completing a critical analysis of a legal question and should be at least 25 pages long, double spaced, and should be submitted one semester before graduation.
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