The Cooley program prepares students for entry into the legal profession through a program of practical legal scholarship.

The law school strives to provide students with the substantive knowledge and legal skills to pass a bar examination and enter directly into practice or advanced legal studies.

Additionally, students will be guided by an ethical framework that will help them throughout their professional careers.

Both WMU and Cooley stress practical education and offer evening and weekend classes three terms a year, permitting the flexibility to work and attend graduate programs.

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 Joint MPA/JD degree saves you time and tuition.

Put simply, the joint program allows participating students to transfer six semester hours of credit from one degree program to the other, resulting in a total course reduction of twelve semester hours if both degrees are completed.

Students need not complete the two degrees concurrently. All students are encouraged to complete one year of one program before beginning studies in the second program.

Cooley Law School may not grant credit for eligible courses taken at Western Michigan University prior to a student’s matriculation at the Law School.