Seems like a trollish query to spark another NLS vs NLUD debate. But I’ll try to be serious about this. It does depend on your personal preferences and reasons for leaving. Even from the very early batches of NLUD (when NLUD was hardly well-established in reputation and some folks claimed it was improbable for it to match older NLUs), I don’t think there’s been even a single person who’s got into NLUD and then written CLAT again, and dropped a year, just to get NLS.

Personally, I don’t think there’s much benefit to losing a year for NLS now. Almost all the opportunities at NLS are available to NLUD students. More importantly, NLS is massively increasing its intake to some 300 students in the 5 year course. While it may not dilute student quality entirely, it would definitely change the NLU experience. And I’m not even referring to the fact that NLUD doesn’t have local state reservation unlike NLS were people with lesser ranks usually get through.

The one thing advantage of NLS now would be their faculty but with so many students, you may be in a section that doesn’t get the best professors sometimes. I think NLUD also has sections now but the batch size is still small. And NLS students were competing at the top even when it’s faculty wasn’t so good. Also, if you’re in first year now, you would’ve joined in 2022 and you’ll be writing CLAT 2024, no? So that means you would’ve dropped two years before going to NLS, why would anyone do that? Like I said, sounds very trollish to me.

That’s even more suspect, then, since you haven’t even experienced NLUD to decide whether to leave it or stay there. Look, man, we all know you’re trolling. No incoming tier-1 NLU fresher asks these kind of questions since most freshers I know will be relieved to get any tier-1 NLU and see the back of CLAT and AILET for good. But hypothetically, if you have some crazy obsession with NLSIU and can’t imagine being a lawyer who doesn’t graduate from there, then, sure, no harm in taking CLAT again. But like I’ve already said, the actual advantages will be minimal, if not worse than NLUD now.

Lol, you think they would’ve left NLUD if RS was there and Venky was still in charge at NLS? They didn’t leave because of NLS, some left because of alma mater ties but primarily because of the new NLS administration. And honestly, most institutions will go through this phase. NLS didn’t have good faculty for years and hardly nurtured any of their own students as full-time faculty. In any case, it’s not a question of NLUD being better or worse, but an expansion of intake is problematic for various reasons which you would know if you studied in the small batch size NLU vs colleges with hundreds of students.

Completely agree.

Treating this as a genuine query, it really depends on what you're aiming for after law school, though it may be too early for you to make this assessment.

Broadly, all T-1 NLUs will offer the same opportunities to you, so dropping a year for NLS won't really make a difference, especially if you're aiming for working in law firms going forward.

For litigation / judiciary, NLUD may be the better option, given you'll get more exposure to the same there. Can't comment too much about NLS on this count though.

The only thing I can imagine would make the change worth it may be if you're planning on shifting to academia, where NLS' alumni network may be of help to you.

TL;DR - there are very, very few situations where switching between any T-1 NLU will be worth it.

Okay this might be controversial but it totally depends on your choice . This year AIR 8 changed his college from NLIU Bhopal to NLSIU. Last to last year , there was one girl from Nujs who reattempted clat for the 2nd time (or 3rd time ?) I guess for NLSIU (I saw her interview on YouTube). But again there are some people who get nlsiu and nlu Delhi in the same attempt and choose to go to the latter . So it totally depends upon you.

The kid attempting for NLS from NLIU isn’t surprising since NLIU seems to be on a terminal decline of some sort. At the very least, they don’t seem to be improving even though they are one of the few NLUs that could potentially compete with tier-1s. They’ve also increased their batch size with some BSc LLB and apparently there aren’t enough hostels, etc, to accommodate students.

If you are in first year now, then you would have joined NLUD in 2022, and are planning to write CLAT 2024 to join NLS in 2024. Why didn't you write CLAT 2023? No one in their right minds would drop 2 years for a switch that many people won't even consider a real upgrade. So no, the switch won't be worth it. But you're mostly trolling since no one who comes to NLUD drops a year for NLS.

The top 4 being...NLS, NLUD, NALSAR and NUJS.

The top 4 are the only tier 1 NLUs is pretty much the general consensus.

As much as i dislike NUJS for its massive political interference and pathetic campus, the place makes up fro it with their placements and has a good lot of quality students.

Buddy, CLAT is already over and happened in December for 2023 batch. Your query is atleast 4 months too late. So you'll spend 2 years at NLUD to get NLS in 2024? LOL. Oh wait, it doesn't even seem genuine since hardly anyone is ▮▮▮ enough to drop a year (forget two years) from NLUD just to get NLS. No one has done that in the past and no one is likely to do it in the future.

What’s with the constant use of Hinglish while typing here? From GNLU to NLS is an upgrade since while GNLU is considered a tier-1 on some levels, the opportunities at NLS plus their brand name and faculty, etc, are much better. Not to mention the batch size is similar so the peer group interactions at NLS would be overall better. The same doesn’t hold true for NLUD to NLS (surprising since it is actually younger than GNLU). There’s a reason why people at NLUD never take the CLAT again to drop a year for any other law school.

You know several people? Lol, sorry, but no, you don’t. I think I know the place a little better than you do, man. Name even two people who took the CLAT again, forget whether they left or not. Hell, if Mod won’t allow names then atleast list the years when they took it. No one takes the exam again because most people realise who get NLUD and study there realise that it’s pretty decent, and that other tier-1s won’t be much of an upgrade.

Nope. Some people write the exam without any intention to switch. There may be 1 or 2 otherwise. I can name atleast 2 folks I know that left NLS after a year there to join NLUD. Maybe just to get an ego boost of getting a good CLAT rank or prove to oneself that they can get a high rank. In 2020, with the COVID lockdown, I know quite a few people from even places like NUJS who wrote the exam for fun especially since there was even some NLAT fiasco. The fact that no one has switched is evidence enough that no one takes it seriously.

It is easier to crack NLS these days since they have many quotas (Karnataka domicile, OBC, EWS, etc.) and batch size increase means all the CLAT top 100-110 have a shot. But 4-5 years ago, when they admitted only 80 kids, you needed a top 50-60 rank in CLAT for NLS. Back then it was a tough nut to crack since seats were so few and you had to have had a very good day in the exam to crack it. That was tough for most people.