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Boston University, J.D., JD Program

 United States

Entry requirements

Have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, or be enrolled in a course of study that will result in the award of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university before you commence study at BU Law Have taken the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) within the past five years Register with the Law School Admission Council Credential Assembly Service (CAS). Applicants who received their undergraduate educations outside of the United States or Canada, or whose undergraduate educations in the United States or Canada were conducted in a language other than English, are also required to submit a score from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) taken within two years of the date of application. Successful applicants usually score at least 250 on the computer-based test, or 100 on the internet-based test. If you have taken the internet-based test, your scores on the individual sections should at a minimum be 25 (reading), 25 (listening), 25 (writing), and 25 (speaking).

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Location

The university is located at the junction of Fenway-Kenmore, Allston, and Brookline neighborhoods. In the Fenway-Kenmore area are the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the nightlife of Landsdowne Street as well as Fenway Park, home of the famous Boston Red Sox baseball team. Allston has been Boston's largest bohemian neighborhood since the 1960s. Nicknamed "Allston Rock City", the neighborhood is home to many artists and musicians, as well as a variety of cafés, and many of Boston's small music halls. The fourth’s largest U.S. University’s main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston's South End neighborhood.


As a result of its continual expansion, the Charles River campus contains an array of architecturally diverse buildings. The College of Arts and Sciences, Marsh Chapel, and the School of Theology buildings are the university's most recognizable and were built in the late-1930s and 1940s in collegiate gothic style. A sizable amount of the campus is traditional Boston brownstone has acquired almost every townhouse those areas offer. The buildings are primarily dormitories but many also serve as various institutes as well as department offices. The Mugar Memorial Library is the central academic library for the Charles River Campus. It also houses the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, formerly called the Twentieth Century Archive, where documents belonging to thousands of eminent figures in literature, journalism, diplomacy, the arts, and other fields are housed.