Joint MBA degrees
A dual degree that matches your drive
Flourish into a leader who exemplifies ambition with a joint Master of Business Administration degree from the Warrington College of Business and our partnerships across the University of Florida.
Pairing intensive professional training with comprehensive business preparation, this path lets you realize your long-term aspirations, right now. You’ll learn to base decisions on data, assess company finances, motivate teams and market your services — skills that equip you to start your own legal practice, move up to executive status and influence your industry on a wider scale.
All joint MBA degrees
Expect to be asked this at least once: “What can you do with a joint MBA degree?” While industry context varies, potential job titles — business executive, department leader or private practitioner — illustrate where this overlap proves valuable.
JD/MBA
Envision a future defending individual or corporate clients? On top of your legal training, the adaptable skills gained from an MBA help you bring in business and surge past competitors in a saturated market.
The JD/MBA program is designed to be completed in three years. Applicants can apply to the MBA program during their 1L year and will begin the MBA degree, if offered admission, during the summer in between their 1L and 2L years.
To apply to the JD/MBA program
- Apply to and wait for admission into the Levin School of Law’s JD program.
- Declare your intent to apply for an MBA during your first year of law school.
- Review and fulfill all admission requirements for Warrington’s Full-Time MBA program, including completing the GMAT/GRE before submitting your application.
- Double your career opportunities by qualifying for roles in law firms, corporate legal departments, business consulting or investment banking.
- Couple your business skills with knowledge of contracts, compliance and regulations.
- Enhance your legal studies with a broader perspective of business and leadership.
- Develop a specialty at the intersection of business and law — for example, corporate compliance or mergers and acquisitions.
- Gain an advanced understanding of business operations to start your own law firm.
Careers with a JD/MBA
Professionals with a JD/MBA credential embark on three different types of career paths:
- In a law firm: Pass the bar exam and begin a career in corporate, banking or finance law.
- In-house legal counsel: Become management’s go-to advisor for everything policy-related. Your knowledge helps align business operations and objectives with various laws and regulatory requirements.
- In business: Lead business professionals through the legalese of contracts, regulations, mergers, licenses and more regulatory considerations.
MD/MBA
Transition from direct patient care to hospital system administrator, medical nonprofit director or private practice owner. As you make this shift, you’ll know what patients need to thrive, plus the healthcare field’s business side.
The MBA adds one additional year to a student’s medical degree progress. MBA requirements can be completed during the academic year between a student’s second and third or third and fourth years of medical school. All curriculum requirements can be completed in a total of five years.
Applicants are advised to apply to the Master of Science in Management (MSM) program in the Fall before they intend to begin the MSM degree. Should a student seek to continue their business studies, the MSM will transition to the Full-Time MBA program.
PharmD/MBA
Be in a position to identify, drive and amplify life-changing discoveries from within the pharmaceutical industry.
The PharmD/MBA is structured to be completed in five years. Students begin the MBA after their third year of pharmacy school. During their fourth year with pharmacy, the student will be enrolled in all MBA courses. Applicant can apply to the MBA program during their third year of pharmacy school.
MBA/MS in Real Estate
Accelerate your arc to market leader through a program that prepares you to grow your sales, direct teams of agents, and attract a steady stream of clients.
The combination MBA/MS in Real Estate shares eight credits and takes about three years to complete. If a student intends to pursue a combination degree within these areas, they should apply to both programs simultaneously so that decisions can be communicated and academic plans managed.
MBA/MS in Information Systems and Operations Management
You have the tech part down. Now level up with the business background to communicate with executive stakeholders or launch your own venture. Explore concentrations in information technology, data analytics and supply chain management.
The combination MBA/MS in Information Systems and Operations Management shares eight credits and takes about three years to complete. If a student intends to pursue a combination degree within these areas, they should apply to both programs simultaneously so that decisions can be communicated and academic plans managed.
MBA Engineering Partnership
When you aspire to engineering management, this partnership helps you acquire key skills for organizing teams, procuring assets, and guiding projects from proposals through the finished product.
Every year, the MBA program reserves a limited number of spaces for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. This partnership allows the MBA program to offer an accelerated admissions process and special consideration for scholarships, including full scholarship opportunities.
Candidates must meet the following requirements:
- Complete an undergraduate degree from the UF College of Engineering prior to starting the MBA program
- Achieve an undergraduate GPA of 3.4 or higher
- Earn a 680+ GMAT score
- Complete professional work experience via internships and/or co-op programs (12 months or more of professional experience is highly recommended)
Candidates who meet these requirements are eligible to apply to the Full-Time Two-Year MBA Program*. The program is composed of 48 credit hours (28 credits in year one and 20 credits in year two) and a summer internship opportunity.
Space is limited for this program, and interested applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
*Consideration for the one-year Full-Time MBA program will be given to current graduate students.
What is a joint MBA degree?
Through an efficient, time-saving program structure, you’ll infuse your professional or master’s studies with a more comprehensive and complex understanding of business and graduate with two impactful degrees.
1
Extra year added to your studies to complete MBA requirements.
3-5
Years to finish your master’s, JD, MD, or PharmD alongside a highly respected MBA.
8-12
Double-counted credits streamline your studies and save you both time and money.
Why earn a joint MBA?
Making a difference goes beyond serving one person at a time to organization-wide decisions that affect operations and parlay new knowledge into broadly beneficial discoveries. Or, meeting your audience where they are — in their community, responding directly to their concerns — might be how you leave your mark.
Applied learning
Alongside clerkships and clinical rotations, you’ll tackle real-world business challenges with the tools current professionals use, including Bloomberg terminals and cutting-edge AI and data analytics labs.
Soar toward success
Executive decisions influence how you’ll assist patients or clients. Adding an MBA on top of your studies communicates your readiness for these roles and your potential to guide your organization’s progress.
Authentic commitment
Interchangeable, theory-first management bypasses an important component — the tools, environment and support employees need to thrive. Joint MBA programs erase this disconnect, allowing you to effectively empower your staff and drive innovative developments that meaningfully benefit everyone.
Arrive distinguished
Leadership shapes who we are — from our continuous dedication to surpassing expectations to our MBA program’s eminent ranks and alumni. No matter where and how your career begins, we invite you to engage that momentum and establish your own distinguished legacy.
Contact
Naz Erenguc
Director of Admissions
352-273-1836