So you match NUJS grads in most outcomes and agree that they are ahead on placements and still wish to claim that you are better? That does not make any logical sense. As for faculty profiles, I am aware of all the people who teach at both the places. The profiles in terms of publication are actually better at NUJS recently, while teaching ability cannot be judged by outsiders. With Mrinal, Aparna, Chinmayi and Arul all gone, NLUD no longer retains that advantage. I am not saying NLUD is not ahead in any metric. They have got more money, better infra and huge location advantages. But grad outcome-wise, or faculty-wise they are not better at present. Not that I care much, I personally feel that every NLU should only try to make itself better than its own self, since these rankings are meaningless. Every lawyer worth their salt knows that.

I would've engaged but you're hell-bent on denying NLUD being better with flimsy arguments. As far as graduate outcomes go, we match NUJS on nearly every front including higher studies, public service and judicial exams, scholarships, etc. but all you can cite is placements to claim some apparent superiority. And I'll also bet you haven't even looked at the faculty profiles of either place but will keep saying yours is better. Go waste someone else's time.

Give me a break with this placements bragging by the Noojies. The ONLY reason your placements are higher is because of alumni connections/legacy and the fact that most Noojies join the place with the singular idea of getting a corp job. Not because Noojies are somehow inherently more talented at corp jobs. As for the rest of your responses, lesser said the better. They are childish, and you just sound frustrated and desperate to find fault.

1. You have all those tier one firms in the same city and still can't have better placements than NUJS. That just shows your pathetic condition.

2. If you have a problem with junior researchers, then why don't you complain to the moot organisers? Go on, prove your legal skills. It's typical of NLUD trolls to disparage a practice that actually helps junior students to learn.

3. Yes, we still will. Just because it doesn't happen every year doesn't mean it never happened.

4. We don't need to overtake anyone else. We are happy helping our students perform better in all their activities. If overtaking means submitting false ranking data, we would rather not, unlike you.

I’m replying to both you and the other Noojie commentator above since both your comments are half-ass attempts to sling mud and are plain clueless. Classes end by 1 PM and even earlier for 4th and 5th years, pal, so people do go before/after lunch and stay till night. Tier-1 firms in Delhi (Luthra and Trilegal definitely allow this) allow this but you wouldn’t know since Kolkata hardly has any reputable tier-1 teams where Noojies intern.

And you guys get two weeks exemption for Day-Zero despite being almost guaranteed placements thanks to alumni connections? No wonder you might have higher placements. Kind of like how NUJS always sends extra team members for big moots and calling them “junior researchers” despite that being against the rules. We don’t get even a day-off and have mid-terms right after day-zero.

And, you still want to bring up that SAM incident that happened some 5 years back to make some vague point of superiority of NUJS? Lol. That’s been clarified loads of times but suffice for me to say that SAM still comes to recruit every day-zero from NLUD.

The fact that students from NUJS itself comment so regularly on the falling academic standards at the place is evidence enough of which college is currently better. Why don’t you overtake NALSAR first? Didn’t ever manage that despite being just 2 years younger.

Yeah man, you attend all your classes in Dwarka and then visit the Shroffs and the Modis every evening to wine and dine with them as part of your internship. That's why there was a year when a T1 firm called your grads to go to their office for an interview and then rejected everyone. When someone else says what they know from their friends, they are extrapolating, while your 'sources' are the most solid ones. A pity that after attending all these classes from all the best faculty and infra, you still cannot outperform the students from NUJS in any metric.

NLUD placement reports are a great example of 'overhyped placement reports'. The document that they submitted to NIRF is a testament of their barefaced lies. Look at the median salary that they have stated, no firm in India pays that to freshers, and I am certain that half of their placements were not done through TCs. I rarely call anyone liar, but NLUD deserves to be called out for it.

Which T1 firm will allow you to intern only after 4? Pull the other one on pal, that's got bells on. If you claim to have seen students getting debarred, I too have known students who got away, so all that goes to show is the NLUD has double standards. At NUJS, there's no blanket internship exemption for attendance. Only 4th years before day zero get a 15 day period, that's all.

Your information is inaccurate. You've just heard things from a few of your friends and are extrapolating whereas I've actually studied there. No one gets an exemption pass with less than 75% attendance unless they specifically have exemptions for moots/ADR/debates. People that bunk classes and have low attendance have to take the repeat exams and pay fines, and these are usually 5-10 people every batch, not as high as at NUJS.

There is no concept of giving attendance for during internships during class hours. No serious student does that and being in Delhi, it is logistically possible to go after class for interning at courts/firms. This is not possible in Kolkata and I know from my sources that NUJS people stay in Mumbai/Delhi and finish internships while missing classes.

My knowledge concerning the term is very much well-defined - unlike you. I am not throwing terms here and there to justify my college’s overhyped placement reports. Also a consistent drop in indicators which define the college as “good” is even claimed by even your own students (lol who are even studying there now). Maybe use a dictionary next time to challenge someone’s - oh sorry noojies don’t study anyway

A majority of them do. Attendance requirement is 75% and acad leaves can't be obtained without a just cause. And there isn't some way to scam through them using some student body contacts. Unlike at NUJS, people don't skip classes/exams to do internships for increasing their corporate PPO chances.

What do you know about NUJS if you're not from there? Your completely wrong claim about the placements itself is enough to discredit your views. NUJS has consistently been having the best placement among all law schools for the last 6-7 years now. As for faculty, other than NLSIU, no other NLU has objectively 'better' faculty. Infra-wise they are indeed behind, but there's everything that one needs to study law, which is obvious from the fact that graduate performance and outcome remains the same as other NLUs despite such infra.

here comes the self appointed seer who in their 3 years of critical analysis have come up with the conclusion that NUJS is not better than NLUD, without visiting any of the institutions or doing any objective comparison, just on the basis of a 'consensus'.

This is the power of 'consensus', you start a rumour and then it takes its own course.

I literally have an entire comment with context about my interests in the two fields. Also, I specifically mentioned I'd go for UPSC at a later stage IF(emphasis) I feel the law firm BURNOUT, which I've seen happen to a few people.

Comments made as a 'Guest' are not mine.

Read the prompt and the queries before jumping to conclusions or making assumptions.

1. I've been an active member of the platform since 2021 and the general consensus has always been that NLUD has an upward trajectory while NUJS is on the verge of it's downfall.

2. As an aspirant I knew what is the general perception of the candidates who applied for CLAT and AILET.

I haven't found no candidate that preferred NUJS above NLUD apart from the residents of WB itself.

PS: If you confirm that you're not someone from NUJS and belong to ANY other institute then it'll discredit my initial argument that it's a common perception among law schools and I'll duly take that back. But who are we kidding? You're a Noojie :)

Your query and comments seem quite disingenuous, and maybe purposely trollish. If your real dilemma was choosing between law and engineering, then why not just ask people what to choose between NUJS and NITs? Why mention that you had chosen NUJS over NLUD in the original query? That's not even relevant to your main query and many folks choose any of the top 4 NLUs based on personal preferences. Seems like the intention was to create some kind of comment war over nothing.

Not to mention, you have given zero context about your interests and just keep saying you want to make big money or go for UPSC, both of which are poles apart. Speak to people in real life than trolling on an anonymous forum.

Forget about the legacy batch. Just compare from 2013 onwards. What have the NLUD grads done that NUJS grads didn't? Got more or better jobs? Got more scholarships? Started more successful businesses? Achieved more in the litigation sphere? You all hear about this admin mismanagement from anon commentators. There have been similar horrible news from NLUD too, including faculty accusing ▮▮▮ of corruption, students complaining about sexual harassment and misogyny, regular ▮▮▮ of ▮▮▮ and so on.

You should wait a few years before judging that. The top NUJS graduates today finished their law school before NLUD was even set up and NUJS still benefits from its alumni legacy. I don’t think there is an inherent superiority with regard to either institution’s graduates but that’s the case for all the top 7 NLUs till GNLU/NLIU. But with administrative mismanagement at NUJS, I think NLUD is still a safer bet at the moment.

Be that as it may, it’s still easier to get into NUJS with a lower CLAT rank than NLUD’s AILET if one can afford the NRI quota route. OP doesn’t seem to have done his homework on this.

This is your future we are talking about so tread very carefully. I would suggest you pay the fees of NUJS, give advanced and then take a decision. After your adv scores and stream selection, it would be easier to decide. If you do not get a preferable engineering college or stream, go to NUJS.

Please tell us about all these wonderful achievements of NLUD grads in fields like litigation, policy bodies, entrepreneurship, higher studies, that NUJS grads cannot possibly match up to, according to you. Corporate placements is an obvious example because it is verifiable and happens right out of the university, just like your UPSC ranks. That hardly gives you the ground to claim that everything else, NLUD grads do better than NUJS. For someone speaking about humility, you sure displayed a lot of crass arrogance in your comment. If anything, NLUD people should not comment anywhere till they get their university to stop robbing law students in the name of a separate entrance exam and stop submitting false data regularly to NIRF every year. Have some shame and stay quiet.

Every other comment favouring NLUD just expressed it as a matter of fact that it is better than NUJS (which is probably true at this point). You on the other hand sir, said something that is extremely generalised and is not a common perception across the law school sphere.

I wish NUJS had a better administration and a larger campus :(

As someone has pointed out, OP is likely a Bengali and thus chose NUJS over NLUD. The more relevant question is whether to choose CS over NUJS. You people should answer that instead of fighting over NIRF rankings.

My view is that CS is much better as it opens doors to go abroad. If you still want to do law after CS you can always do a 3 year course at NLSIU/Jindal/DU/IIT KGP. You can specialise it IT law and also appear for the patent agent exam.

You keep saying things like better academic standard at NLUD etc. Why don't their graduates become better lawyers then? There is no grad outcome other than UPSC where NLUD students have performed better than NUJS students, which goes to show clearly that the standard of anything isn't any different between these two places.

Lol, if some NLUD grad actually does that, then shame on them. Most folks I know there hardly have chamber lawyer parents. But on every other serious note, this is a lazy generalisation and NLUD is easily the better choice. Firm jobs come around these days for anyone that wants it and is willing to work for it, and the academic rigour and teaching is superior than at NUJS, at present, atleast.

If OP were a serious law aspirant, he would’ve done some research on which law school he’s opting for. He’s chosen a place with domicile quota, a falling ranking and poor state funding plus poor infrastructure facilities over an overall better law school. My guess is that he’s from Kolkata or WB so he wants to stay near home or/and he doesn’t care much for law beyond the corporate pay packages he reads about in magazines.

For additional context, my interests in the two fields are:

1. Law- Share markets and trading/investing. If I go into law, will probably end up going into general corporate or capital markets. Maybe might give UPSC at a later stage if I feel the law firm burnout.

2. Engineering- Programming and coding. Insert typical cs nerd info (know three programming languages etc etc)... Would be going into MNCs like MAANG companies if I do CS.

Would love a well paying job in any field.

It's not as if I'm not interested in Law, honestly, science is far more challenging and tiring compared to law. Plus am really interested in shares/investing and cap marks and stuff.

Regarding what I want to do- my primary motivation is earning a ton of money, and short of opening a business, careers in corporate law at foreign law firms and working in CS fields in multinationals pay really well. Choosing between the two is hard 😂

congrats on choosing nujs over nlud, at least you would get a job unlike in nlud where most clerk at their parents chambers and post photos online with #slummingatchambers #hardwork etc.

At nujs you can achieve everything without nepotism, excellent support network and work ethic

I think you should go for engineering, law is not everyone's cup of tea.

Engineering seems like an all-round safer option in the long run.

I get the feeling that if you choose NUJS over a good NIT, you'll regret your decision during the dreadful phases of your career. I can't really say the same for engineering; it doesn't really shut off any major future prospects apart from being a lawyer.

Ordinarily, I would choose a CS in NIT over any NLU, and would advise you to do the same. But there are some niche advantages an NLU may give you:

1. You must be good in maths and you may thus want to give GMAT. If you want to do an MBA in the US after your CS, the US B-schools are limiting Indian CS grad intake because that is the most common profile. They want diversity, so Indian non-CS grads have an edge. So an NLU grad may have a slightly better chance of getting into Harvard B School than a CS grad, because of this quote system. Same for ISB.

2. You can also specialise in maths-centric and science-centric law courses that LLB students avoid, such as tax and tech law.

Remember also that passing LLB is easier than CS, especially for a bright guy like you. So you can prepare for GMAT on the side.

Help me decide!

If y'all had to judge between CS in an NIT and NUJS, which one would it be?
Long story short, got into NUJS via CLAT and NLUD through AILET, chose NUJS over NLUD. The twist is that I'm a PCM science student, and gave CLAT as a backup. Also gave JEE Mains (99.7%ile), via which I can get CS in top NITs.

Not too sure about how I'll do in JEE Adv, and can't wait for it cause Advanced is in June and NUJS is asking for full 1st sem fees by May 20th.