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Other fascinating info too: https://www.idialaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/diversity-survey-2018-19.pdf
Also, close to 90% has educated parents. That's astonishing. I happy that I'm a first-gen learner.
Good luck, Rando! Hope you get good value from the degree.
One friend of mine went to NUJS and I went to a T2 NLU. Nobody else even wrote clat.
1. For those with decent grades : LLB from LSE, KCL UCL
2. For those with low grades: LLB from Cardiff, Birmingham, Liverpool etc
3. For those who cannot afford to go abroad or would like to stay in India: LLB from Jindal, then LLM from abroad
But beware of dissing IB kids: most have excellent communications skills and fantastic connections, so they end up in good jobs in London law firms or consulting companies, leaving NLU kids behind.
There can be exceptions of course and they can be handful.
- Former KV student.
1. US Ivy Leagues or comparable (Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UCB, Duke etc)
2. Next tier top US colleges (eg UCLA, Northwestern, USC, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon etc) OR top US liberal arts colleges (Amherst etc) OR top Russell Group UK universities (Oxbridge, LSE, KCL, UCL, Warwick, Edinburgh etc, but not maybe Nottingham or York or Newcastle)
3. Other good US/UK universities not in the tiers above (eg Fordham, Rutgers, SOAS, Nottingham, York) OR G8 Australian universities OR premier universities elsewhere (Singapore, Europe, Canada)
4. Other universities abroad not mentioned above, and some niche places (eg University of the Arts London or Raffles School of Design in Singapore)
5. Stay in India: Ashoka or law at Jindal. For the smarter ones, engineering at BITS or Manipal, or medicine at a good private university like Manipal or Sri Ramchandra.
6. More options in India: KREA, Flame, non-law at Jindal, any course at Symbiosis, maybe a tier 2 private medical or engineering college. Amity or Bennett as a last resort
Re top Indian government universities like IIT or NLUs or AIIMS, it’s rare for IB kids to even try —- they get scared by the high levels of competition and the low number of merit list seats (IB students are usually in the general, non-reserved category). But there have been cases of a few students cracking top NLUs and even IITs. These would definitely be a top 3 career choice for them, but maybe not the top choice. I know of cases where kids have turned down IITs for MIT and one old case where someone turned down NLSIU for a non-law course at NUS Singapore. Plus a very old case where someone chose KCL law with full fees over NLSIU (child of a senior lawyer, who subsequently qualified as a barrister and returned to India).