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Doing litigation is definitely greater RoI if you become successful. This is an if. If you like to gamble, go for it. But nothing stops you from doing lit after HNLU either.
DU LLB students, on the other hand, rarely get such offers. The batch size is higher, and even the top 5% have sometimes found it difficult to get into law firms that pay more than 12LPA. The majority of the batch ends up joining litigators who pay less than 30-40k per month. The placement cell is practically defunct and does not have direct arrangements/relations with the HRs of most law firms - which you'll find at HNLU, so that at least the toppers could get direct slots for internships. People at HNLU have scored direct slots for assessment internships at most T1s and higher-paying T2s like S&R in recent years, being able to convert them into PPOs with just one internship. In DU, you have to reach out to alumni yourself and keepon following through for favourable outcomes for just internships, and even assessment internships are only rarely secured through far more hard work.
So, if you want to have a higher probability of having a higher-paying job at famous firms, purely based on statistics, HNLU is a much better option.
But if you are so confident of your work ethic and contacts/future academic performance that you're sure of performing great in both academics and internships and building your own set of referrals and mentor-relationships to eventually land a good job from anywhere, then yes, DU LLB costs far lesser and is centrally located, so it makes more sense to go there.
If you plan on joining corporate law firms, you can cover what you're "lacking" (allegedly) through internships during your 5 year course.
And if you plan on joining litigation, it's one of the best. Having no educational loan helps in initial years of litigation. Plus you get a flavour of all courts and forums, from District Courts to HC to SC to tribunals like NCLT, NGT, ITAT, etc.
Irrespective of what you wish to do, this is pretty much what you should follow
Confused whether I should register for DU CLC 5 year program or not
Please give some pros and cons of both decisions and also your advice on which to choose!
P.S I really don't care if this becomes an NLU vs DU debate in the comments (like other posts).
Just give me some good rational responses :)
Cheers!