For students entering in the academic year 2024-25:

1. BITS Law ₹60 lacs
2. IIULER ₹60 lacs

This includes tuition, hostel, and mess. If reasonable personal expenses are added for the five years, the total cost would be around ₹75 lacs. How many years to ₹1 crore?

Terrifying or terrific?

Yes, you are right. JGLS is around ₹47 lacs, not including any ancillary and personal expenses. Overall, it would be around ₹60 - ₹62 lacs for the entire five years. So it is one tier lower than BITS Law and IIULER, from a cost perspective. State NLUs and other private universities must be salivating at the prospect of fee increases still possible because of these expensive options and the availability of willing students/parents to pay them.

Hi, my total course came up to 12-13 lakhs including hostel and my personal expenses. If I had cut down on my smoking and alcohol in college, then yes, I could have kept it under 12. But yes, getting a law degree which is worth more than 20 lakhs is plain stupid. The same degree I had gotten for 1/4th the money at a respected NLU and got placed at a T1 firm too.

It's called inflation. Fact is that NLUs are way too subsidised. The fees must be 30 lakhs at least to have top-class infrastructure and faculty. Most NLUs have crumbling hostels, dilapidated non-AC classrooms and stinky toilets. Plus near-zero alumni in representation in faculty and instead mediocre profs who can barely string a sentence together.

Most nlu classroom are fitted with AC and well made but not flamboyant like Jindal, toilet are

maintained okayishly, hostel are also medicore but not crumbling or dialaphated. There are some profs in some t1,t2,t3 nlu where prof were associate in law firm before becoming. Faculty

State NLUs will also use this as a way to justify steep increases in their fee - because the availability of willing students to bear ₹1 crore gives the state NLUs the headroom to raise. State NLUs will remain state entities and the respective states will further reduce or stop funding altogether. A rising tide lifts all boats.

With how the general seats are shrinking in the state NLUs (thanks to domicile and other reservations), many will be "forced" to look at such expensive options. It is hard to believe that BITS' law school (trying to ride on the BITS brand) charges more than BITS' engineering degrees (its flagship program that contributed to the brand).