Study Master of Law (LLM) in Banking and Financial Law at Boston University in the USA, School of Law

Master of Law (LLM) in Banking and Financial Law

USA

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What will I learn?

Equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to handle the regulatory, transactional and compliance needs of financial services clients in today’s global economy, our graduates hold influential positions worldwide-in banks, governments, law firms, corporations, financial institutions, and multilateral and nongovernmental organizations. Since conferring our first LLM in Banking & Financial Law in 1984, our program remains the only financial services LLM program in the country with its own faculty and a curriculum designed exclusively for graduate study.The program of study, focusing on regulatory courses and transactional courses in the areas of banking law, securities law, and general financial services law, leads to the degree of Master of Laws in Banking and Financial Law. Students may also choose to focus their studies in one of the available program concentrations in The Business of Banking, Compliance Management, Financial Services Transactions (offered only to students studying in the residential format), Lending and Credit Transactions, and Securities Transactions. Upon graduating, students will have a deep appreciation of how to apply the law to banking and financial transactions, whether they earn the degree through residential studies in Boston or online from home.2 Semesters

Which department am I in?

School of Law

Study options

Full Time (2 Semesters)

Tuition fees
US$73,024.00 per year
Start date

September 2026

Venue

Boston Campus

One Silber Way,

Boston,

Massachusetts,

02215, Northeast, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

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 bachelors 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)

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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