The first requirement for law school admission is to earn a bachelor's degree.
Law schools admit students from a wide variety of programs of study.
While history and political science have been the traditional route to law, today's law school students come from a wide variety of prelaw academic backgrounds. Prelaw majors in engineering and mines and metallurgy can provide unique backgrounds for special litigation in patent law, or the problems of product liability and government regulations. A successful prelaw program requires course planning to include fundamentals that are essential for legal training, such as accounting, logic, language skills and a general understanding of the concepts of psychology, sociology, and economics. Any student planning to apply to law school should expect to show above-average academic ability.