The Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the US-based Maurer School of Law at Indiana University to provide dual degree programmes in law. This new move will allow students to obtain a Juris Doctorate (JD) from Maurer School of Law along with an LLB degree from Jindal Global Law School. The JD happens to be the US version of LLB and is the qualifying course required to be able to sit for the US bar examination. The BA LLB degree from the Jindal Global Law School with a Juris Doctorate from Indiana would last a total of six years and a summer term, whereas the LLB from the Jindal Global Law School with a Juris Doctorate from the Maurer School of Law would take four years and a summer term to complete. Generally, the BA LLB and the LLB programmes would last for a total of five and three years respectively, while the JD takes three years to complete. Both of the joint degree courses happen to be the first of their kind in India. The three-year Maurer programme generally costs $43,000 (Rs.21 lakh) per year for non-US residents, whereas Jindal’s five-year BA LLB and three-year LLB programmes cost Rs.6.5 lakh and Rs. 7.5 lakh per year respectively. The MoU was signed by the two schools on February 19, 2012.
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