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None of the other reasons you mentioned yo justify AILET is convincing or objective. As for NLSIU, they didn't hold NLAT after that, right? All NLUs are free to exit CLAT now, but they didn't. Only NLUD remains outside. That's because of greed, simple.
I was part of the entrance exam of a place which would be considered upper tier 2 today, this was the year just before CLAT, we had around 7500 students take the exam. Once we joined CLAT our total income went down by half, although we had many more examinees, but the number of institutions sharing the pie meant the amount per uni went down.
What many do not know there were some institutions which threatened to walk out of CLAT after the first year because the money was paltry in comparison to what was being garnered by individual exams. There was a two tier system proposed, but the lower ranked institution threatened to remove themselves and cooler heads prevailed and the CLAT chugged on.
So, it is very much a fact that NLUD persists with AILET for financial gain. The margin is close is 75%. If you pursue the financial statements of NLUD, which are publicly available, you can easily find it.
The number of students who get assistance at NLUD is listed on NIRF it is no more than all other similarly placed NLUs. I am sure the uni does not absorb the electric bill from AC hostels. But I must say the food at NLUD mess is v good.
It's a known fact that the then WB CM created NUJS since he was impressed by the progress of NLS and saw that many Bengali students were leaving WB for NLS, and he wanted to retain the talent. That's why he invited Madhava Menon to establish NUJS. I never said that only Bengalis applied to NUJS but even if you look at the names of some of their earlier alumni, a large number of them are Bengalis.
It's obviously more simplistic for your charlatan minds to claim that AILET is only a cash-grabbing scheme but that's not the only reason for AILET. When a university provides high quality academic exposure which only a few other CLAT NLUs even provide, I see no reason why they need to group themselves with mediocrity. In the past, before the Consortium came into being, CLAT was always slammed as a poorly conducted, random exam that always had scams (from paper leaks to syllabus changes to technical snags) nearly every year. And even during the Consortium era, let's not forget the NLAT fiasco. Were it not for the Supreme Court, it's likely that even NLS would've exited CLAT.
And having its own entrance was necessary since most students select the CLAT preferences based on the order/year of establishment. When I took the CLAT, there were many folks who preferred NLIU over NUJS and that was visible even in the merit and allotment lists. NLUD persists with AILET because there is a valid presumption that some uninformed aspirants who tend to seriously choose their law school only after getting a rank, will initially mark preferences based on year of establishment as it appears on the CLAT website, and then NLUD, would be 12th or something since it was formed even after NUALS. This is obviously unfair considering NLUD is way better than nearly all older NLUs.
And I highly doubt that if NLUD joined CLAT, many people would prefer NLIU/NLUJ over it and that this is what scares the admin. Not that the latter two are any worse, but that simply isn't a major concern. Most people who have a choice between NLUD and the other two choose NLUD. Check the AILET allotment for the previous years with names, if you're so keen. And even this year, some 3 folks in the top 100 ranks preferred NLUJ over NLS, does that destroy the image of NLS? I think since NLUD has the ambition to eventually overtake even NLS, they want to avoid a clash of preferences with NLS and NALSAR, and AILET helps to maintain that image. Also, for someone who might have an off-day in CLAT and can't land a top 3/4, an AILET rank could ensure s/he atleast has a good law school to choose from rather than being forced to settle for a tier-2 NLU.
I also don't agree with this whole idea of greed. It's a public institution that pays based on UGC scales and in the past was well-funded by the Delhi government. Holding an entrance exam across the country in various cities, setting a high-standard question paper and ensuring proper invigilation, etc, all costs a lot of money. And for students that do get into NLUD, the admin provides fee waivers based on need, funds all the travel expenses for international/national competitions and the research centres even pay interns. Hell, there's even spilt A/Cs in all the hostel rooms.
Even if NLUD does join the CLAT in the future, I don't think it will suffer much in terms of quality of students, and ideally will be a 2nd or 3rd preference for most.
I guess you are too young to remember that 12-13 years ago (before CLAT) all NLUs (which were operational then) had their own entrance exam and all of them were thriving. Then a concerted effort by students and a couple of NGOs led to the creation of CLAT after a court order.
NLUD was being created around this time and Ranveer Singh was the first VC. He calculated that it would be helpful to have a different exam as NLUD was unknown at the time and it would have ranked no. 8 or 9 in the preference list of the students if it was to be part of CLAT (as we have seen the initial ranks get ossified and rarely changes massively). Also, AILET gave a nice boost to income for the uni, he also publicly declared at the time that all NLUs had profited from their own entrance exam in the formative years to build a corpus and that chance should not be taken away from NLUD.
Shamnad Basheer decided that NLUD should be make party to the order and he was pursuing it around 2012, but other events took place and this was never pursued, and AILET survived.
Even last year when NLUD participated in the CLAT meeting as an observer there was a consensus that they might join in 2023 but it seems that talks failed recently and Bajpai decided to forge it alone. Two things happened 1) FM was ejected from the CLAT scene, 2) In Bajpai, NLUD has found someone who has excellent network to resist the pressures from CLAT consortium
So, it is more due to a series of coincidences and the continued greed of NLUD admin that AILET has survived, rather than any other factors. Although we may also argue that there is a continued fear amongst the NLUD stakeholders that the CLAT aspirants may put it after NLIU/NLUJ and that would be disastrous for the image cultivated by NLUD.
who will only claim when proof is demanded
I’m not going to prove anything to you since you’re the one making deliberately false claims. But know this, you never had a chance to get into NLUD regardless. Enjoy your tier-3 law school.
Don’t even get me started on the top CLAT rankers that get shit marks in AILET and can’t even get near one of merit lists here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZw35VUBdzo
It is not possible for you to do so, only those from 500+ CLAT rank seriously consider dropping GNLU+ and going to NLUD
several people who did not come to NLUD even online last year have been mentioned as contractual
I get it, you failed to crack AILET. And now you think by spreading misinformation, you can somehow vindicate your failure. Not going to happen, NLUD is better than wherever you’re studying at. No questions asked and no quarters given.
Second, the 2020 NIRF data was used to highlight the deliberate nature of lying on the part of NLUD. Their internal memo clearly stated something else and they submitted made up data to NIRF. 2020 was the last year when NLUD put raw data onto internal servers. So, we use 2020 data to make it easier for ▮▮▮ to easily compare the difference between the truth (internal memo) and the falsehood (NIRF submission), no brains required.
Third, the method of calculating median does not change once it leaves the metro station and enters NLUD. Refer to one of the earlier comments where someone has shown step by step how to calculate median.
fourth, as for the 2023 NIRF submission, many commentators above have already shown how NLUD have again either deliberately or recklessly submitted false information. "1) the 19lpa media salary for graduates at NLUD is a fantasy, some apologists tried taking the charitable view that it is average, but that is mathematically impossible. 2) NLUD has quoted that they have 124 teachers, the list on their internal severs shows how people who came for one lecture have been put as contractual and those who have never even come either in person or online in last couple of years have been put in as visiting professors" I would add that even the research income and scopus citations for NLUD is suspect (given the inflated teacher list).
Look man, you’re clearly hard pressed against NLUD and want to take this opportunity to claim that all the data is fake but apart from the salary figures, there’s literally no other data you can prove which is certifiably inaccurate. You want to call out the salary issue, fair enough, I also feel that it needs revision, but the rest of what you’ve cited are rubbish claims. And no, salary figures were very much accurate till the 2020 NIRF, so claiming that “they’ve always lied” is hyperbolic and misleading.
And NIRF permits citing visiting and contractual faculty including research associate positions and from what I see, there is no inaccuracy there. Other NLUs also include contractual and visiting faculty in their lists, that’s not illegal so long as you don’t wrongly classify a contractual one as permanent or something. And NLUD does in fact employ quite a few folks across its handful of research centres, maybe your college can’t afford to do that.
you are deliberately fomenting a false comparison, you play in a pen of 1, while other NLUs have a true discovery mechanism of preference ranks through the clat counselling system. It is like comparing a monopoly (AILET) with true competitive market (CLAT). There can never be a true price discovery (preference) in a monopoly.
2. How does it matter if I study at Andaman Law College, it doesnt diminish the fact that NLUD has been caught out again on lying about the most important thing that matters to law students - graduate outcomes. Stop attacking the person and find out why your college needs to submit false data year fater year.
So, unfortunately it is not one inaccurate data but a cascade of deliberately false info which have been finetuned over the past 6 years to give an inflated impression of NLUD.
You don’t know that method that NLUD uses to calculate its median so and your alleged proof of that is also an outdated and different document. So, you haven’t proved shit.
Moderator should make any comment from you as “unverified” and “trollish”.
▮▮▮ if you're really at NALSAR/NUJS, you'll be well aware of multiple folks dropping those places for NLUD. Both of them have a domicile quota where students with much lower ranks enter. And NUJS even has a large-chunk of NRI-sponsored seats for backdoor entries for folks with much lower CLAT ranks.
On a serious note, GNLU/HNLU rank folks are no less competent. NLUD has done better regardless of the CLAT rank which shows that the institution is what makes the difference. Keep trolling, it doesn't matter whether our salary figures are 19 lacs or 1.9 lacs, we'll still be better than your law school.
guess for imaginary number you dont need any maths skills, which is what most students of NLUD have
watch some youtube videos on basic numeracy skills instead of your usual diet
https://www.nirfindia.org/nirfpdfcdn/2023/pdf/Law/IR-L-U-0111.pdf look at third table from top on page 1, look at row 1
median salary on NIRF docu is 18 lakhs, NLUD internal memo https://nludelhi.ac.in/download/nirf/Placement.pdf it is 12 lakhs
on the official documents the number of students who went for higher ed is 26, in the internal memo https://nludelhi.ac.in/download/nirf/HigherStudies.pdf it is 8
Moderator should have some sense to mark this as "trollish" and preferably not even publish this kind of garbage.
Regardless of what you people write, the fact remains that NLUD is still one of the best. It’s the only college without some local domicile quota unlike NLS, NALSAR and NUJS. It’s located in the capital and set up by the NCT of Delhi, which is not some ordinary state like the others. It’s the only college capable of sustaining itself separated from CLAT, besides NLS. So it’s in a league of its own.
And we’ve ranked high in NIRF even when placements weren’t as high so claiming that your cheap NLU would be 2nd or 3rd if not for NLUD is just wishful and desperate. If anything, it was from SKD’s time that salary figures got inflated, but be assured we’d still be 2nd even with 16 lacs p.a.
I know that you guys would love to “piggyback” on one inaccurate data set to claim that everything else is false in the hope that some CLAT aspirant reads this and chooses a shit place like NUJS/Nalsar over NLUD, but like I said you’re too stupid to actually get proper data on the table to argue.
NLUD is better suited to be compared with GNLU or HNLU, as only those CLAT students who could have got into GNLU and HNLU seriously think of going to NLUD
If you are in your first year, give CLAT and get out of the #FAKELUD
Jodhpur and Bhopal are better than #FAKELUD
NLUD is not in the top 5 unis in the contemplation of any law aspirant
If you can read, please have a look at the third table top row https://www.nirfindia.org/nirfpdfcdn/2023/pdf/Law/IR-L-U-0111.pdf you will find the discrepancy.
NLUD will put some prof. who had taken one session as a contractual employee and piggyback on their research laurels. Thus inflate its research output.
It is a well known fact in the NLU ecosystem that NLUD lies each year on NIRF Graduate salary, the question is how long would this lie last and hopefully only stupid students, who do no homework, would fall for it.
The problem with the research fund is also funny, the uni has got 2 year grant of 8.4 lakhs total, so ideally it should be counted 4.2 lakhs per year for NIRF, but you will find they have counted 8.4 lakhs for each of the two years.
what more proof do you need? hope you will believe that you have joined a uni where the authorities lie on government documents, hope you will not do so in the future
NALSAR and NUJS grads think that they would be second or third if it weren't for salary figures but they seem to have conveniently forgotten how NLUD was ranking ahead of them since 2018 when salary figures were not seemingly inflated. Point being, you guys want to people to stop taking NIRF seriously, then don't comment on it. But you can't help yourself and you clothe your trolling as some call for fairness and transparency. The fact that all the top 4 NLUs have tweeted and bragged about their NIRF ranks is evidence enough that NIRF matters and that NLUD is easily part of the tier-1 list (if not ahead due to the fact that it's the only actual "national" university situated in the country's capital in that list) regardless of your jealousy towards its rise.
And SKD was NLUD VC when NLUD’s salary figures seemed inflated, no doubt he did some other fudging to get NALSAR back to third. It’s just that you guys can’t verify anything but want to have an opinion about a college you can’t get admission into. Grow up.
NLUD produces liars :P
NUJS produces role-models
NLUD produces troll-models :D
I was going through the faculty list for the last three years, in 2021 and 2022, they have rightly put Prof. Galanter's age as 89 and 90, however this year, it suddenly went down to 77. I wonder what was going on through the mind of the person who was submitting the data for this year '91 seems too high, let us put it down to 77, seems like a nice number.' Apart from the audacity it takes to submit false data to government what also strikes me as criminally culpable is that NLUD might be piggybacking on the scopus publications of some of the 'visiting/contractual' people.
For info, NLUD did not submit fake data. Don’t even get me started on the lies said by you people.
And all universities have included visiting faculty as part of their total number including NLS and NALSAR. The only valid criticism would be salary figures but even then, no one here has any data on how its calculated or the prescribed NIRF procedure for it (if there is one). All you clowns who are bashing NLUD should realise that NLUD has already ranked 2nd in NIRF for multiple years even before this salary issue, and back then our salaries were way more moderate. You can keep trying to pretend that your colleges are better and have some great integrity because they’re part of the useless CLAT but it won’t work because deep down you also know that regardless of NIRF, NLUD is a better institution than your NLU.
even their flagship death penalty project had input from different NLUs ▮▮▮
#NIRFCHOR NLUD has learnt well from the original messiah
NLSIU
NALSAR
NLUD
NUJS
GNLU
JGLS
NLUJ
NLIU
MNLU
RGNUL/RMLNLU (at par)
121 internships/paralegalships. No tier 1 nlu comes even close to this. We currently have the batch size that NLS is expadning to get and getting a huge number does boost perception. CHRIST Bangalore also has the Shardul and Bharati Shroff Gold Medal for best outgoing student.
As per data submitted to NIRF by NLUD, total number of students who opted for higher education in 15/16 batch was 26
https://www.nirfindia.org/nirfpdfcdn/2023/pdf/Law/IR-L-U-0111.pdf
As per their own internal memo (hosted on their own website), the data for that year was 8
https://nludelhi.ac.in/download/nirf/HigherStudies.pdf
#FAKELUD also double counts research income https://nludelhi.ac.in/download/nirf/Sponsored%20Research%20Details%20(1).pdf
and anyone who knows about #FAKELUD will tell you they never had 124 faculty members, the SMOKING GUN is here, as per the submission by NLUD available at https://nludelhi.ac.in/download/nirf/NIRF%20NLUD%202023.pdf
scroll down this explosive document and you will find Marc Galanter (aged 92) is listed as a visiting faculty member [although more points are added for permanent faculty members and contract faculty, any faculty listed also adds to it], there are over 15 names listed a visiting faculty who may have come and given a talk at NLUD sometime. There are over 30 researchers who are listed as teachers who have never taught. There are contractual teachers listed who have not taught at NLUD in the last three years. All done with a scheme to inflate numbers of teachers at #FAKELUD.
Students from #FAKELUD do not try to persuade your uni to remove the data from the website, I have made copies of it, if you manage to deactivate the links, I shall upload it and it shall live for ever on the internet.
last year NLUD had 25 tier 1 recruitment at 16lpa, 4 TCs were given at £45k (for first year)
if we assume the rest at 10lpa, then the average comes to 15 lakhs
the only way the average will be 19lpa if there were a dozen TCs or if 50 students got 16lpa tier 1 recruitment, both of which did not happen.
So again it is proven that NLUD LIES ON NIRF
Unlike the recruitment data on which NLUD has been LYING for the last THREE YEARS
Lets call out a LIE when it is obvious
If it wasn't for their blatant lying they would certainly be below NALSAR, even nujs for that matter. Nirf really needs to avoid taking in inflated placement reports.
If only it improved its perception score Because in other departments it's almost on par with the top 3.
The vagueness of the perception criteria is very damaging to the legitimacy of the nirf rankings and i hope we get some clear idea about how they determine it.
As someone in the comments mentioned how ignoring the perception parameter will bring NUJS to the 3rd spot.
Orders popcorn on Swiggy
1. NLSIU
2. NALSAR
3. NLUD
4. NUJS
5. GNLU
6. NLUJ
7. NLIU
8. RGNLU
9. RMLNLU
10. HNLU
- History doesn't matter.
- Law firm placements are only one of many aspects of NIRF. Faculty research and teaching (both of which depend on faculty quality) also matters.
- Perception also matters and the university has undoubtedly dipped in perception since the TMC came to power and the governing bodies are riddled with mediocre TMC people. The Left front appointed very eminent people from all over India in the governing bodies. Such people are absent from the governing bodies today.
Even in the criteria of Outreach and Inclusivity, one factor for calculation is the number of students from outside the state in which the university is located. A place like NLIU Bhopal has just 25 All-India merit seats out of 130+ seats with large reservations for MP domicile ST/SC, and OBC/EWS. They even have some 20-odd NRI seats but their general category non-domicile intake is abysmally low. Combine that with an administration that is not even proactive despite NLIU's large alumni base and achievements, and it's not surprising to see it ranked low. Even in CLAT preferences, it was at one point on par with NUJS for many aspirants and now it's fallen behind GNLU. If MNLU Mumbai were any good, NLIU would fall below that as well, it appears.
Also, while the perception score is definitely iffy and always has been (last year SLS had 100 perception score while NLS didn't), it does have the least weightage in the overall scoring. That's probably why NUJS wasn't hit much by it. Not that anyone in their right mind will perceive SLS or Christ as better over NUJS.
Also, a college staying out of NIRF is not helping it. I expected this from JGLS since a poor NIRF rank can easily demolish its claims as being equal to the tier-1 public law schools based on that QS ranking, but places like MNLU Mumbai, HNLU and now NLUJ should ideally always participate in a government ranking. Prospective students deserve the transparency. Even with NLUD, there are rightful concerns regarding its salary calculation even though placement numbers have been getting better. But atleast revealing that to the public will ensure there may be change in the future due to criticism/feedback. Places like HNLU which are nearly 20 years old and have had multiple batches graduate have no reason to stay out of such rankings beyond a fear of embarrassment if they are ranked low.
The 2023 rankings are as follows:
1. National Law School of India University - Bengaluru, Karnataka
2. National Law University - New Delhi, Delhi
3. Nalsar University of Law - Hyderabad, Telangana
4. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences - Kolkata, West Bengal
5. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi - New Delhi, Delhi
6. Symbiosis Law School - Pune, Maharashtra
7. Gujarat National Law University - Gandhinagar, Gujarat
8. Siksha O Anusandhan - Bhubaneswar, Odisha
9. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - Kharagpur, West Bengal
10. Babasheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
11. Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences - Chennai, Tamil Nadu
12. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology - Bhubaneswar, Odisha
13. Christ University - Bengaluru, Karnataka
14. Aligarh Muslim University - Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
15. Shanmugha Arts Science Technology & Research Academy - Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
16. Lovely Professional University - Phagwara, Punjab
17. Indian Law Institute - New Delhi, Delhi
18. National Law Institute University - Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
19. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University - New Delhi, Delhi
20. The Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law - Patiala, Punjab
21. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University - Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
22. Banaras Hindu University - Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
23. Amity University Haryana - Gurugram, Haryana
24. National University of Study & Research in Law - Ranchi, Jharkhand
25. Alliance University - Bengaluru, Karnataka
26. Army Institute of Law, Sector-68 - Mohali, Punjab
27. Nirma University - Ahmedabad, Gujarat
28. National Law University and Judicial Academy - Kamrup, Assam
29. Manipal University Jaipur - Jaipur, Rajasthan
30. National Law University - Cuttack, Odisha
I can wrap my head around the frivolous contentions one might have with the ranking like NLUD>NALSAR/ Symbiosis>GNLU/ RGNUL>RMLNLU but this is RIDICULOUS. On further inspection, I came to realise that it's not as rigged as one might think.
The parameters:
1. Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR):
- Student Strength including Doctoral Students (SS): Represents the total number of students enrolled in the institution, including doctoral students. It is calculated based on factors such as undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) student numbers.
- Faculty-student ratio with emphasis on permanent faculty (FSR): This ratio indicates the number of students per faculty member in the institution, with a focus on permanent faculty members.
- Combined metric for Faculty with Ph.D. (or equivalent) and Experience (FQE): This represents the combined score for faculty members who possess a Ph.D. degree or its equivalent and have relevant experience.
- Financial Resources and their Utilisation (FRU): Reflects the financial resources available to the institution and how effectively they are utilized.
2. Research and Professional Practice (RP):
- Combined metric for Publications (PU): Measures the number of research publications from the institution.
- Combined metric for Quality of Publications (QP): Evaluates the quality of the research publications, considering factors such as citations and impact.
- Footprint of Projects and Professional Practice (FPPP): Indicates the involvement of the institution in projects and professional practice.
3. Graduation Outcomes (GO):
- Combined metric for Placement and Higher Studies (GPH): Reflects the percentage of students placed in jobs or pursuing higher studies after graduation.
- Metric for University Examinations (GUE): Evaluates the performance of students in university examinations.
- Median Salary (GMS): Represents the median salary earned by graduates from the institution.
- Metric for Number of Ph.D. Students Graduated (GPHD): Measures the number of Ph.D. students successfully completing their degrees.
4. Outreach and Inclusivity (OI):
- Percentage of Students from Other States/Countries (Region Diversity RD): Represents the percentage of students enrolled from other states within the country or other countries.
- Percentage of Women (Women Diversity WD): Indicates the percentage of female students enrolled in the institution.
- Economically and Socially Challenged Students (ESCS): Evaluates the representation and support provided to economically and socially challenged students.
- Facilities for Physically Challenged Students (PCS): Reflects the availability of facilities and support for students with physical disabilities.
5. Perception (PR):
- Peer Perception: Employers & Academic Peers (PR): Represents the perception of the institution among employers and academic peers.
At first glance, you might not be able to discern the premeditated fallacies behind these rankings.
The truth lies in the calculations of these parameters, for example, SS would take into account the number of students enrolled under the Ph.D. course which would inherently put institutes that don't enroll higher Ph.D. candidates at a disadvantage as per the devised formula.
If we take a look at the weightage of FSR & FQE, we would find that it rewards more for the quantity of the faculty members rather than the quality of them. You can take FSR (30 marks) simply as a student-faculty ratio, while the FQE only takes into account those faculties that are Ph.D. + accounts for the experience they have. Some universities scored full on FSR but struggled to fetch even 10 marks in FQE.
ESCS which evaluates the representation and support provided to economically and socially challenged students is calculated on the basis of the percentage of UG students being provided FULL tuition fee reimbursement by the institution to pursue their degree programs. I mean- there are programmes in many NLUs/private unis where they award percentage scholarships for meritorious students coming from SC/ST category but this doesn't take it into account until and unless it is fully covered, I don't get why.
Coming to the PR (Peer Perception) scores, they are by far the most rigged aspect of the ranking. NUJS scored a humble 50.8, while Christ University and Indian law institute astonishingly scored 61.15 and 74.17 respectively. Apart from the Top 3, none of the universities managed to get close to Rizzed perception of these two institutes.
To sum it up, this is a pretty useless ranking with no real-world application, going by the metrics alone I wouldn't be surprised if an unknown university manages to beat NLS if it really wants to. And the most significant things that a student realistically looks upon are placements and scope for higher education which doesn't seem to be a priority here since it constitutes just 16.25% of all the parameters.
Note: All the statistics are verified from the official website itself and if someone wants to look into the formulas then he/she shall go to: https://www.nirfindia.org/nirfpdfcdn/2022/framework/Law.pdf
A good article I read on this issue last year by GS Bajpai: Rankings that make no sense - The Hindu
Without a doubt, it has been the incessant bad publicity due to incessant toxicity in the '24 batch which has hit the public perception rating issued by NIRF yesterday. With GNLU, performing exceptionally well in all the other factors, and even surprassing its higher peers in most of these aspects, it was only due to a dismal rating in public perception which pushed it to the 7th position. I, being a student of the University would like to point out that our immediate senior batch, '24 batch has been extremely shameless and some students are even proud of having got the tag of being the most toxic, selfish, sadistic batch across NLUs. The outcome is for everyone to see.
I, by taking this platform as a useful means, would like to apologise to the Admin and every other stakeholder who had worked tirelessly for bringing the ratings above, however this shameless batch has once again being the cause of our downfall. For those who keep on defending that there are only a few students who don't like the batch, I can assure you as a junior that having talked to most of the people in the batch, I can safely conclude that the amount of back'bitching, selfish talks and groupism is something which no other batch can emulate, that is no other batch in any other NLU even comes close to this type of infighting happening within the batch.
Please treat this post as my sincere apologies to the stakeholders involved who had worked tirelessly day in and day out, but at the end came short because of this stupid senior batch of ours who haven't even bothered to acknowledge that there is a problem in the batch, inspite of such much of evidence. Hopefully next year when this utterly shameless batch if not there the ranking would improve drastically. (LI just allow this post, this is not a troll comment, but rather consists of an apology and a hope).
1. 1 - National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
2. 2 - National Law University, New Delhi
3. 3 - Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad
4. 4 - The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
5. 5 - Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
6. 6 - Symbiosis Law School, Pune
7. 7 - Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
8. 8 - Siksha O Anushandhan, Bhubaneswar
9. 9 - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
10. 10 - Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow
Well well well, see what we have here in the rankings:
https://www.nirfindia.org/2023/LawRanking.html
1. The top 4 are more or less without any surprise. I think most people other than trolls would agree with it at this stage.
2. NLUJ is an important omission in this year. Jindal is another, but they have so far stayed out of this as a matter of policy. NLUJ has participated in the past. One wonders why they could not or did not participate in this year.
3. NLS has shown significant improvement (2.5 points overall from last year). Their teaching learning resources and graduate outcomes have dropped a little, but there is a huge jump in research and publications. This is probably because of all the new hires and the new admin encouraging the faculty to publish more.
4. The perception ranking, always a subject of criticism directed at NIRF, does not disappoint this year either. There are many examples of this, but let us just consider a couple for now. NUJS' perception score has dropped hard to 50, which cannot be accounted for by any specific reason, since it has apparently done well in all other parameters, thereby mitigating the damage to the overall score. In fact, without the perception score, the overall scores of NLUD, NALSAR and NUJS across other parameters are 274.54, 271.91, and 272.79 respectively, so not really much to choose from these 3 yet. I would personally have favoured NLUD over the other 2 myself had I been joining law school now, but that is because I believe that an enterprising law student can make excellent use of the proximity to Delhi (SC, law firms etc.) and there is no harm in having better infra and hostel even if it is not essential to my studies. I honestly have not seen any qualitative difference between the grads of NLS, NALSAR, NLUD and NUJS in the industry or academia, but I don't want to get into that debate at all. Even without the perception score, the top 4 would have remained almost the same, with NUJS and NALSAR swapping their positions, that's all. What makes this perception score of NUJS completely ridiculous is that universities like Symbi and Christ have scored 65 and 61, and ILI Delhi has scored 74! I do not know how this score is calculated, because NIRF has never revealed objective details, but based on what they do reveal on their websites, academics prefer to join Symbi, Christ and ILI over NUJS and industry people prefer the grads of Christ, ILI and Symbi a lot over NUJS grads. Both of these, I can speak from experience, are bollocks! My own alma may have enough legacy achievements and current positive developments to merit a high perception score, but scoring 100/100 is really a bit too much. I really hope that NIRF would either scrap this parameter altogether or reveal objectively verifiable details about how it is calculated.
5. Jamia comes up two notches this year (7 to 5). This place has been doing steadily better in these rankings (got the 7th rank couple of times before, 8th and 9th once each). I honestly don't know much about the place, having met only a few grads from there, but if it can keep this up, then hopefully, its placement scene will improve eventually, which will be a good thing for the students.
6. I had hoped GNLU to have a better rank in this year, maybe within top 5, but it still does not seem to have figured out how to make that leap yet. It was doing well till 2021 (highest rank: 6), but lagged a little behind since then. This year it too has been hit by the perception monster though, scoring only 53 in that front.
7. Symbi is back to the middle of the top 10, after having a meteoric rise to 3 last year. As I mentioned earlier, its perception score is a bit of an enigma. It has one of the lowest research and publication scores though, should focus on it much more.
8. The enigmatic Siksha O Anusandhan still retains a top 10 position (in fact, it has improved its ranking from 9 to 8) and has a perception score that is not that far from NUJS or GNLU. I confess that I haven't met anyone from this place yet, only seen their ads. Which is what surprises me, given their rank.
9. IIT KGP has fallen from 6 to 9 this year, their teaching learning resources having taken a hit, which even an increased research score could not offset entirely.
10. The new entrant in the top 10 is Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. Previously, it was a college, and had ranked the last in 2018 (10th) and 2019 (15th). Since then, it had not featured till this year. Again, I know a couple of grads from there who are into litigation, don't know much about the place.
11. KIIT, AMU, Saveetha, Sastra and LPU are featuring in the 11-16 zone, with the order having changed a little from last year. Christ comes up to 13 this year, with a robust perception score. BHU has dropped from 20 to 22.
12. NLIU Bhopal continues to languish, having dropped 3 places from last year (15 to 18) and barely remains within the top 20. Unfortunate to see one of the older NLUs gradually dropping through the ranks. A little surprising given their alumni base and decent placements. Their infra is not bad there, though location is a problem.
13. HNLU continues to remain out of the ranking, which one would have thought would change after VCV took over as the VC. They don't seem to be ready enough for this yet.
14. NLUO has slipped a few spots and just retained a rank within 30 (25 last year). NLUJA has dropped from 24 to 28 in this year, though I am not sure how it continues to remain ahead of NLUO (the teaching learning resources score is the only parameter in which it is ahead in this year).
15. RGNUL and RMLNLU both have slipped a few spots in this year, though remains within top 30. NUSRL has dropped from 22 to 24. NUALS still has not come back after 2021.
16. 3 new private universities have joined the fray in this year, Alliance from Bengaluru, Nirma from Gujarat, and Manipal from Jaipur. UPES, which was there at a respectable 21 rank last year, is not there at all in this year. Amity Gurgaon has come up from 27 last year to 23 in this year and Army Law Institute maintains the same 26th position.
17. The 3 MNLUs, CNLU, TNNLU, DSNLU, NLU Sonepat, NLU Tripura are still not here. The last 2 may be too new, but the others should have been around somewhere. At least CNLU, DSNLU have been around for long enough.
That's it from my side. These are all objective quant observations apart from my little rant about the perception score, which has got several quant points in support. I honestly don't care about the upvoting, downvoting or trolling. People may do any or all of those and/or comment/ troll to their hearts' content. So long as they take some interest in the legal education sector here. If I get time, I will publish a detailed analysis of all NIRF data over the last few years some day. Till then, cheers!
https://www.nirfindia.org/2023/LawRanking.html
- NLU ranking is NLSIU>NLUD>NALSAR>NUJS>GNLU>NLIU>RGNUL>RMLNLU>NLU Ranchi>NLU Assam >NLUO. This is fine, except for the fact that NLUJ should be included and ranked below GNLU and above NLIU. Also, HNLU should be included and ranked below RMLNLU and above NLU Ranchi.
- NLSIU retains 100/100 perception rank for the 7th year running, as well as a very good faculty research score. This remains the biggest reason why NLSIU remains #1.
- The graduate outcomes (placements) score for NLSIU, NLUD, NALSAR and NUJS are almost the same., but the research and perception score much lower than NLSIU.
- NUJS has an extremely poor perception rank of 50/100, the lowest among all the major NLUs. But its placement score is above NLUD and NALSAR.
Thus, if any college wants to overtake NLSIU, it needs to need up faculty research and perception: essentially, do what Sudhir is doing by hiring well-qualified faculty.
https://www.nirfindia.org/nirfpdfcdn/2023/pdf/Law/IR-L-U-0111.pdf
Please look at the median data for salary of students placement, NLUD claims that it has placed 59 students and the median salary is 19 lakhs pa. This would mean if we arrange the student salary in a descending order then the 30th student has got a salary of 19 lpa. Which also means that at least 30 students from NLUD have got a salary of 19 lpa. Look at publicly available data, NLUD has placed around 25 in tier 1 last year, and a couple of TCs. As we all know A0 in T1 firms (dependent on some negotiation and location) get around 16 lpa. So unless exceptional bonuses have already been awarded, this data is FALSE.
SO, NLUD CONTINUES ITS TRADITION OF LYING AND SUBMITTING FALSE INFO.
1.NLSIU
2.NLUD
3.NALSAR
4.NUJS
5.Jamia
NLUD continues to soar ahead of NALSAR. NALSAR and NUJS move a rank up because of the disappearance of Symbiosis from the rankings.Curious to see where NLUJ and GNLU will place.
https://www.timesnownews.com/education/nirf-ranking-2023-law-nlsui-bangalore-vs-nlu-delhi-complete-list-of-top-law-colleges-article-100756748