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India Today/Outlook law school rankings 2010: NLIU gains, NUJS drops most

NLSIU Bangalore
NLSIU Bangalore

Indian weekly magazines India Today and Outlook India have both ranked NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad as India's top law schools, while NLIU Bhopal and ILS Pune occupied third place in each respective ranking and NUJS Kolkata found itself in sixth and fifth place.

NLSIU (pictured) and Nalsar both came out on top of this year's India Today and Outlook law school rankings.

While India Today's top two positions were unchanged from last year, in Outlook's ranking Nalsar displaced NUJS Kolkata in second spot, pushing it to fifth place behind NLIU Bhopal.

Campus Law Centre of Delhi University was ranked fourth by India Today but did not participate in Outlook's rankings.

Symbiosis Pune came in at fifth and sixth of India Today and Outlook's ranking respectively.

New high entrants to India Today's list included new national law schools GNLU Gandhinagar and HNLU Raipur in ninth and 11th positions respectively.

There were no other major changes in India Today's rankings, except for NUJS Kolkata climbing two places to sixth and ILS Pune dropping to seventh from fifth last year.

Outlook India's rankings, however, saw seven out of 10 ranked colleges rise the ranks as three colleges - Delhi University (sixth ranked in 2009), Government Law College Mumbai (eighth) and NLU Jodhpur (seventh) - did not participate in its rankings this year.

Outlook ranked ILS Pune in third place but NLIU Bhopal was by far the fastest climber, jumping from tenth to fourth this year.

NUJS saw the biggest drop in Outlook's rankings from second rank last year ahead of Nalsar to fifth place this year.

Read Legally India blogger sss's criticism of current law school rankings here. For a satirical look at the rankings, read False News With Balls blog on the topic.

Last year rankings:
For India Today's 2009 rankings of law schools, click here.
For Outlook India's 2009 law school rankings, click here.

India Today law school rankings 2010

Law School
India Today Rank (2010)
Rank 2009
NLSIU Bangalore
1
1
Nalsar Hyderabad
2
2
NLIU Bhopal
3
4
Campus Law Centre DU
4
3
Symbiosis Pune
5
6
NUJS Kolkata
6
8
ILS Law College Pune
7
5
NLU Jodhpur
8
7
GNLU Gandhinagar
9
-
Amity Law School Delhi
10
9
HNLU Raipur
11
-
Faculty of Law Benaras, Varanasi
12
11
School of Legal Studies, Cochin University
13
14
NUALS Kochi
14
18
Army Institute of Law, Mohali
15
21
Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University
16
12
Faculty of Law Rohtak University
17
-
Tamilnadu Dr Ambedkar Law University
18
24
UCL Bangalore
19
15
Faculty of Law, Osmania University
20
20
Faculty of Law, University of Kolkata
21
13
Kerala Law Academy
22
-
Faculty of Law, University of Mumbai
23
-
Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamnia, New Delhi
24
16
Bangalore University for Legal Studies
25
22
Source: India Today 2010

Outlook India law school rankings 2010

Law school Outlook India Rank (2010) Score (2010)
Rank 2009
NLSIU Bangalore 1 872.3
1
Nalsar Hyderabad 2 848
3
ILS Law College Pune 3 790.1
4
NLIU Bhopal 4 779.4
10
NUJS Kolkata 5 779.4
2
Symbiosis Law School Pune 6 759.8
5
Faculty of Law, BHU Varanasi 7 716.1
-
Amity Law School Noida 8 711.1
12
Bangalore Inst of Legal Studies 9 650.3
11
Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed Univ Law College 10 640.3
-
Source: Outlook India 2010
Note: Delhi University, Government Law College Mumbai and NLU Jodhpur did not participate, according to Outlook India.

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