Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.)

Texas Tech University

The Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) program is designed to provide a general legal education. Each first-year student is enrolled in 30 semester credit hours during their first year as a law student. Students must then take 26 hours of advanced required courses during their second and third years. Fourteen of those hours must be taken during the second year. Students also choose from elective courses to complete a minimum total of 90 credit hours for graduation (56 are required hours and 34 are elective credit hours). These electives include courses that can fulfill the upper-level writing requirement and the 6 credits of experiential coursework. For select first-year students who could benefit from additional instruction in legal analysis, a Legal Analysis course will be required in the second year. For these students, the 3 credit hours for Legal Analysis will replace 3 elective credit hours (59 required hours and 31 elective hours).

School of Law