Students have the opportunity to receive both the JD degree from BU School of Law and an LLM in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University School of Law, one of mainland China鈥檚 most prestigious law faculties, located in the heart of Beijing. Students in the program complete a fall semester at Tsinghua University, then return to Tsinghua after graduating from BU Law, in order to complete their final semester of study. This program鈥攖he first of its kind in mainland China鈥攊s available to qualified 2L or 3L students, and instruction is offered entirely in English.
Program Requirements
To be eligible for the program, BU Law students will need to complete two semesters of residency before studying at Tsinghua during the fall semester. Participating students will return to Tsinghua within two years of graduating from BU Law to complete a second (spring) semester, at the end of which they would be awarded the LLM in Chinese Law from Tsinghua.
January 2025
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LLM degree program applicants must hold a first degree in law:
US-trained applicants must be graduates of a law school accredited by the American Bar Association at the time of matriculation.
Foreign-trained applicants must hold a first degree in law, or its equivalent, from an accredited or comparably recognized law school or law faculty outside the United States at the time of matriculation. Admission to the national bar of certain jurisdictions may meet the eligibility criteria.
Exception: highly-qualified candidates who hold a bachelor鈥檚 degree or its equivalent but do not have a law degree are occasionally admitted into our Executive LLM in International Business Law.
Proof of English Language Proficiency
TOEFL. If taking the TOEFL exam, you must demonstrate proficiency in English by achieving a minimum score of 600 (paper-based) or 250 (computer-based) or 100 (internet-based). If you have taken the new internet-based test, your scores on the individual sections should at a minimum be 25 (reading), 25 (listening), 25 (writing) and 25 (speaking). You must arrange for an official report of your TOEFL scores to be sent electronically to LSAC from the Educational Testing Service (ETS).
IELTS. If taking the IELTS exam, you must achieve a minimum score of 7.0.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
