While it looks impressive to have both a law and business degree, some students are finding that it is not all it’s cracked up to be. Take Dina Allam, for example. After graduating from Ohio State University with a J.D. and MBA, she struggled to get a job.

Why? Well, according to Allam, “people don’t see the value in the joint degree. They think I’m confused.”

Long, long ago, a degree was crucial in achieving success. However, the Web (in my opinion) and all it has to offer has been one of several factors in changing all of that. Today, passion is a huge asset and street-smarts to achieve big dreams is also a plus. Now, degrees are still impressive to investors looking to help you out with a start-up business but is the dual degree really the impressive part? Maybe not.

I think so but I’m not hiring lawyers with an MBA. And according to Allam, “they [law schools] made it sound like there were so many careers you could go into. I definitely think all the interviews I had were because I was in business school and not because I had a law degree.”

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