Hey I wouldn’t suggest to take a loan, that too for an average college, where returns aren’t guaranteed. You may want to take loans for your masters and that’s justified. Why don’t you take admission in local law colleges of either Delhi and Bombay where fees aren’t high and you get to intern throughout the year while making some money and the exposure and learning you get will be better than any college. Had it been too 5 nlus I would have suggested loan but else not worth it. All the best.

Pune would be great for certain - all T1s take candidates from university, I think this was mentioned in another thread about taking a drop for the university. We had 40+ T1 jobs this year. I’m working at a T1 myself.

Do your own diligence though, don’t take mine or anybody else’s word blindly - it is fairly easy: conduct a LinkedIn search combining SLSP’s name with your T1 firm of choice. Check people from the batch of 2022, you should be able to verify most of the A0s. Please do this for CERTAIN, don’t base your decision solely on anonymous comments on an online portal where people can wantonly spite other universities without basis.

For 2018-23, AZB has come and taken 8 students from campus placements. Trilegal is coming on August 6, and Khaitan shall be coming for 5 teams (GC, Cap Marks, ELB, and a couple others) again, in August. PPO count across T1s is currently around 20-22 (most of my juniors have added the customary “Incoming Associate” tag in their LinkedIn headline, so you can check this too haha). Note that placements at SLSP are on a rolling basis, but final numbers stack up quite well against most of the top 5-6 law schools. The issue? You’ll need to ensure you’re in the top 80-100 in a batch of approx. 280 (BA + BBA LLB total) to have a fair shot. This isn’t that hard - but just keep this in mind.

Laterals to foreign firms are quite strong: not taking names, but SAs at A&O, Freshfields and Hogan Lovells are there from uni. Many Associates in the UK too. Can’t comment on what the decision calculus for this is yet (I’m an A0, and a PA senior from college recently went to A&O as an Associate so I’m guessing the commercials work out. But I am blind on this - can’t comment).

Fresh hires to Magic circle firms seem promising (1 fresher shall be joining Linklaters from my batch. 3 candidates got shortlisted from the 2018-23 batch for the final interviews, but sadly didn’t make it through. Let’s see what happens this year. Similar stuff goes for HSF).

Overall Pune is a great place, and you have more than what you need to launch your career. Please don’t stress much over rankings - SLSP has been ranked highly for a long time, but that doesn’t matter at all in terms of benefits to you. Rankings are a breeding ground for insecurity. It would be much better to do checks on recent alumni - verify numbers for T1 associates, Oxbridge LLMs, and foreign lawyers (laterals + fresher pre/post LLM). See what they did, and check if you think hitting milestones on their CVs would be reasonable financially/temporally for you. If yes, go ahead. Viman Nagar is a wonderful place to be. :)

I gave SLAT this year and may manage to get Both SLS-Pune or Noida. Finances are an issue and I will surely have to take Edu loan in 4th and 5th year.
I am not getting a clear pic of loan system as to how interest is taken or when it starts. Some says it starts after you pass out, some say it starts as soon as you take it from bank at a very high interest rate.
More or Less some people regret Edu Loans which makes it scarier.
I am getting in a local private college in a tier 1 city as a secondary option.
Other thing is I don't have any inclination towards corporate side as of now (not fully sure) but I maybe bound to it if somehow the loan bundles up to a huge sum to be paid off at earliest. (coz I have heard non-corporate side takes ages for getting decent income)
So for this situation is Symbiosis Pune/Noida this good as my mentor says or its just a fancy dream that I must ignore and save money.