GNLU has been doing great in terms of placing its students and academically. I got in GNLU but I had the chance to being upgraded to NLU J. So if we take into account things like :- 1. Faculty 2. Infrastructure 3. Administration and liberty 4. Activities/Co-curriculars, competitions, moots 5. Placements and Internships
I have no belongingness to any of these institutions, but as a professional in the legal Industry for over 14 years including my stints abroad I can see that now Gnlu is more recognised may it be higher education abroad, Foreign law firms TCs or careers in International law and organisations. NLUJ has been only good so far in foreign TCs but that too has been stagnant or declining for recent batches. I believe one of the reasons for GNLU’s growth has been constant funding from the state gov. While both institutions are good, I would suggest you to go for Gnlu
Faculty: very few are good, at most 2-3. None of the professors are distinguished nor leading in their fields. So, subpar faculties, i.e., professors. PhD does not mean that they are any good at their jobs of making even the most boring laws interesting and sparking genuine interests in the students, rather than all the sycophants. However, the TRAs are good though they don't get opportunities to engage classes.
Infrastructure: lack of proper maintenance causes the so-called infrastructural superiority of GNLU to be rundown. It is nothing like the photos on the website but they charge an exorbitant amount for maintenance and hostel fees. The food is terrible and inedible at times with the mess overrun by cockroaches. The tube lights in the hostel and the classrooms, 0.8, even where faculties Frequent are perpetually hanging down so as to fall off.
Administration and liberty: idk about the boys hostel but in the girls hostel, the warden Manisha and others barge in at midnight into your room with security and goes through all your belongs at 1 or 2 in the morning whilst making snide comments. You can't even approach the Registrar or faculty wardens or director to address the rudeness showed by the administrative staff because they just don't care about you. One of the faculty wardens, harsha, suggests that we don't like having the warden and security barge in at 2 in the morning since we have something to hide. As if, the cupboards are rusted, the beds creaky and loosely jointed, the draws of the desk never opening or closing and the rusted rickety chairs we get are capable of hiding stuff. Meanwhile, the University spends crores in constructing faculty lounges when student's keep asking the Administration to do something about the wildlife crisis on campus, snakes and langurs.
Activities: non existent since SAC was disbanded, moots are subpar with no proper guidelines to improve your memo, and co-curriculars are plain sad since the faculty and Administration gets involved in everything.
Placements and internship: thankfully, the internship amd placements are good since the faculty convenor of CRA, Nidhi Buch, is fantastic. She involves the students and is always open to suggestions. Also, Nisha Trivedi is quite efficient.
My opinion would be for you to try to get into NLUJ. Don't waste your time, effort and hardworking in GNLU which is helmed by Shanthakumar and his gujarati masters. Also, check out the Gujarat HC views on how the university is run.
1. faculty for both bba and ba sucks. as for the law subjects, most faculties are decent. usually the quality increases as you get to your honors.
2. acad block is decent. hostels are pretty bad ngl, specially men's. however, the new VC does seem to be changing that. in fact one of the boy's hostel has been rebuilt. everyone gets a single room starting your first year so that's nice.
3. admin is fuckall. v stern. you would not get exemptions on exams etc for moots as you probably would in GNLU. as for liberty, the only person who cares abot hostel rules is the CW. so as long as you hide from him, you're fine
4. sports is a huge thing here. moots, competitions not as much as GNLU i would say. largely because no one ever has the time to work on all of this because of excessive number of tests etc. however, that also has changed starting this sem. plus the 2026 batch seems to be winning wherever they go
5. easy if you're in top 15-20ish of the batch. after that a bit difficult tho not impossible, lots of people from 25ish rank also have T1 internships. largely dependent on CV
1. Faculty
2. Infrastructure
3. Administration and liberty
4. Activities/Co-curriculars, competitions, moots
5. Placements and Internships
which would be the better choice, gnlu or nluj?
NLUJ on 1 and 4
Infrastructure: lack of proper maintenance causes the so-called infrastructural superiority of GNLU to be rundown. It is nothing like the photos on the website but they charge an exorbitant amount for maintenance and hostel fees. The food is terrible and inedible at times with the mess overrun by cockroaches. The tube lights in the hostel and the classrooms, 0.8, even where faculties Frequent are perpetually hanging down so as to fall off.
Administration and liberty: idk about the boys hostel but in the girls hostel, the warden Manisha and others barge in at midnight into your room with security and goes through all your belongs at 1 or 2
in the morning whilst making snide comments. You can't even approach the Registrar or faculty wardens or director to address the rudeness showed by the administrative staff because they just don't care about you. One of the faculty wardens, harsha, suggests that we don't like having the warden and security barge in at 2 in the morning since we have something to hide. As if, the cupboards are rusted, the beds creaky and loosely jointed, the draws of the desk never opening or closing and the rusted rickety chairs we get are capable of hiding stuff. Meanwhile, the University spends crores in constructing faculty lounges when student's keep asking the Administration to do something about the wildlife crisis on campus, snakes and langurs.
Activities: non existent since SAC was disbanded, moots are subpar with no proper guidelines to improve your memo, and co-curriculars are plain sad since the faculty and Administration gets involved in everything.
Placements and internship: thankfully, the internship amd placements are good since the faculty convenor of CRA, Nidhi Buch, is fantastic. She involves the students and is always open to suggestions. Also, Nisha Trivedi is quite efficient.
My opinion would be for you to try to get into NLUJ. Don't waste your time, effort and hardworking in GNLU which is helmed by Shanthakumar and his gujarati masters. Also, check out the Gujarat HC views on how the university is run.
IMO that’s the tier 2 ranking after the Big 3.
2. acad block is decent. hostels are pretty bad ngl, specially men's. however, the new VC does seem to be changing that. in fact one of the boy's hostel has been rebuilt. everyone gets a single room starting your first year so that's nice.
3. admin is fuckall. v stern. you would not get exemptions on exams etc for moots as you probably would in GNLU. as for liberty, the only person who cares abot hostel rules is the CW. so as long as you hide from him, you're fine
4. sports is a huge thing here. moots, competitions not as much as GNLU i would say. largely because no one ever has the time to work on all of this because of excessive number of tests etc. however, that also has changed starting this sem. plus the 2026 batch seems to be winning wherever they go
5. easy if you're in top 15-20ish of the batch. after that a bit difficult tho not impossible, lots of people from 25ish rank also have T1 internships. largely dependent on CV