Pre-Law Programs
The Legal Education Accelerated Degree (LEAD) is Kansas State University’s program with the University of
Kansas School of Law. This accelerated degree program permits students to earn a bachelor’s degree from K-
State and a law degree from KU in only six years. Students who are accepted into the LEAD program spend
three years at K-State before transferring to the KU School of Law; the first year of law school transfers back to
K-State as 29 hours of general elective credit. K-State students also prepare for their legal career through law-
related internships, educational activities, and experiential trips to courts and law offices around the nation.
Requirements include a minimum GPA and KU-appropriate minimum LSAT.
This program is a collaboration between Kansas State University and Washburn University School of Law,
wherein K-State pre-law students who are interested in addressing the growing need for expanded quality legal
services in the nation’s rural communities are invited to work with Washburn Law faculty and staff to acquire
knowledge and insight which would best serve the varied needs of would-be rural practitioners. This goal will be
pursued via mentoring experiences provided by Washburn Law alumni and other practitioners statewide,
individual and group trips, and interaction with expert guest speakers. Declared Pre-Law students interested in
the program will apply for admittance generally during the second semester of their sophomore year.
In an effort to expand opportunities for pre-law students from diverse majors as well as to raise the profile of the
Office of Pre-Law Advising at Kansas State University, Pre-Law migrated from its previous home within the
College of Arts & Sciences to its new home within the Office of the Provost. This relocation was further
enhanced by spatial co-location in an office suite alongside the University Honors Program and the Office of
Nationally Competitive Scholarships. These changes communicate that a pre-law course of study may include
major fields in any and all of K-State’s undergraduate-serving colleges and campuses—Agriculture; Architecture,
Planning & Design; Arts & Sciences; Business; Education; Engineering; Global Campus; Human Ecology; Olathe
or K-State Polytechnic—and that pre-law students are among the most hardworking and high-achieving at the
University. If you come to K-State, please visit us in 215 Fairchild Hall.