Requirements & Applications
Admission Requirements
To be eligible for admission, an applicant must hold either a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school in the U.S. or an academic degree in law or comparable from an educational institution in a country other than the U.S. which makes the applicant eligible to become licensed to practice in that country. Documentation of all academic degrees and, where applicable, a license, is required.
Ordinarily, the academic degree of an international applicant must be comparable to a U.S. Bachelor's degree (for example, B.A., A.B., B.S.). A Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree will also qualify.
Applicants for whom English is a second language must have a paper-based TOEFL score of at least 560, a computer-based TOEFL of at least 213, an internet-based iBT TOEFL of at least 81+, or an IELTS score of at least 6. We will also accept a score of "First Grade" on the national Japanese English Proficiency STEP Exam. Qualifying language scores must be less than two years old.
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will also accept successful completion of Intensive English Masters Level 112 at the ELS Language Center - Indianapolis as satisfaction of the English Language qualification.
Applicants interested in applying for the LL.M. Degree should submit an online LSAC application with all required, supporting documents to the Graduate Studies Admissions as directed on the Application page of this website.
Updated: 10/21/2011
