im currently appearing for my boards and super confused what college to take. Basically I wasted the whole year got a bad clat rank and bad ailet rank gave slat got in the interview round but couldn't get in and all im left with is mhcet but im not sure how much ill get in that so glc or ils is my plan a (hopefully I get them) if not what should my plan b be? bits, NMIMS or amity for 5 years bballb course

I might consider bits actually because it's not as far and I've talked to a few seniors and since nobody has graduated completely considering the law school just started 2 years ago-how do u know the placements are bad? and are they that bad

also what do u mean amity is amity? I don't know much about it could u expand?

NMIMS is like on some random floor of mithibai so I don't really WANT to go there but im still giving the NLAT.

what about Jindal tho?

NMIMS Law School now has its own campus and building right opposite Cooper. I think its your best bet. They have become quite flexible when it comes to interning regularly along with lectures. The lecture timings are fixed in a way that you can intern every day. Its the best bet in Mumbai since GLC now has stringent attendance policy and cannot intern properly. Also, you get the internship slots in the non-seasonal months at T1 and T2 firms (Aug-Nov, Feb-April).

NMIMS 5 th year student, it's absolutely trash, no flexibility for interning, no attendance relaxation, you'll have a billion submissions for no reason, do not ever go to NMIMS, I was is SLS Pune but switched to NMIMS since course fee was 10l and I didn't have to pay rent, worst mistake of my life

There is no substitute for good company, both in terms of your fellow students and the teachers in your class. Keeping this in mind, why not consider a good three-year/four-year under-graduate programme in a competitive university. There is DU and its north campus. Prepare for it. At the same time, you may also consider the BA (Hons) programme at NLSIU << https://www.nls.ac.in/programme/b-a-hons/ >>. Its intake is 60 and the application deadline is 11:59 pm on 23.03.2025. It is a good degree on its own and should ideally place you in a position to pursue both law and others avenues after you complete it. Students passing out of this programme will also be alotted 10 p.c. of seats in LLB (Hons) programme at NLSIU.

I was mocking you because there was nothing in my original comment that should have given you a reason to not understand what I was saying. But then I felt bad about it and again tried to explain in another comment what I had already stated before. You can see that too. Rest is up to you. All the best.

Look mate. Let me give you a perspective, based on meeting one Amity graduate, and one graduate only. I once knew an Amity graduate who went for a reasonable quality foreign master's in law (LLM) degree (full disclosure: I myself was doing that same degree at that time). That LLM's admissions requirement is that you have performed above average (if not spectacularly) on the academic front during your undergraduate years, but their admissions staff didn't really have all that fantastic an understanding of what an above average grade from certain Indian universities meant, so this Amity graduate was admitted. She was one of the intellectually most under-quality students in our entire cohort (it is only a small level of liking for her on a personal level that prevents me from labelling her as the least bright). Not kidding. I had almost zero idea about Amity law school before I knew this person and just thought, 'Oh, she's from the uni others love to hate on'. After meeting her, I must say it will be slightly harder for me to look at other Amity graduates without any form of preconceived assumption (though I promise to try). This is because she was finding it hard to cope with a level of coursework that was difficult enough to keep the rest of us on our toes, but not to give us fits. There were, as I say, other Indians on that LLM, including from DU and NLUs, who managed fine; she didn't, however, and she admitted that the reason was the substandard quality of her undergraduate education. I hope that this is helpful in terms of looking at your choices. Take this into account with what others have said or will say about Amity graduates who did other things after taking their law degrees.

Doing LLM at third rate unis overseas (e.g., UWE Bristol) is less worthwhile than doing an LLM from a first-rate uni in India, because of the amount they charge you in tuition despite being third-rate. First-rate of India vs. first (or perhaps even second) rate in the typical destinations (the UK, Canada, Australia, the U.S.), no question, the quality of the overseas one is better. If you want a good educational experience and preparation for academia, you'll be having a great time. But an LLM in no country I know of is helpful for getting a law firm job (unless of course it's part of a qualification combo like Harvard JD followed by Cambridge LLM).

Here are a few questions you might wish to consider if you're going abroad (from someone who studied law at the undergraduate level overseas):

1. For abroad (in case you're thinking of UK and Australia, in particular). What are your school marks (10th and 12th) like? Are they at least above 90% of ICSE or CBSE?

2. Again, this question is based on the assumption of you thinking about abroad. How good was your relationship with your 11th and 12th schoolteachers? You will need a letter of recommendation from a teacher in 11th and 12th for an application to study law at a UK uni.

3. Did you take the LNAT for Jindal? If so, what were your marks on the LNAT? UK unis aren't like Jindal, where they will take any old fart that shows up. The ones that use LNAT as part of their admission processes (Oxford, Cambridge, King's, LSE, UCL, Bristol) have typical score ranges on their websites for what marks people typically achieve on the reading section of the LNAT.

1. No to Amity

2. Maybe for NMIMS or BITS

If you get BITS with some scholarship, take it. It's being run like Jindal 2.0, and the admin is very active in placing students in internships. The quality of students is fine.

NMIMS is OK but it's sometimes run like a school. The admin is extremely conservative in their approach.

Bits is overall trying really hard to get good students, they have had a decent internship placement cycle, having law firms and general counsels offering internships directly to the law school. We have had legal internships at Kelloggs, Nivea, Metro, Crisil and much more, law firms mae we had SNG partners and a few more again. Our next internship cycle will be the best one after we get in 3rd year law firms, very well known law firms tier1 and tier 2 are interested in giving internships directly through the college. Pretty excited for that honestly. Our 1st years in this summer cycle will also be interning under a few tier 2 law firms and under in house general counsels.
So more or less internships are not a problem.

Coming to academics, its extremely rigorous you will def bawl your eyes out. They have extremely high standards for checking and getting like a 55 out of 100 in a subject means youre doing great. Scholarship students are the most mentally affected students since their minimum criteria to keep the scholarship is 65/100 which is EXTREMELY difficult.
Overall the college is struggling in making a culture, but with the new batch coming in we expect that many students will be in the campus and that would add on to more activity participation in campus thus leading to cultural built up in BITS.

Overall the college is s great choice if you have the budget for it. Because financial pressure along with the scholarship pressure would hurt you mentally a lot. But, if you're up for it then your choice.

One good thing about the college is that, unlike most law school toxicity, most of the students in bits aren't insecure about their careers, they are chill and this means you wont be having toxic competition but more of a healthy competition with your peers, seniors will always be more than reachable no ragging no bullyin in college takes place its a chill college with chill people.

But, the social sitaution would be yours to handle, because that is not in anyone's hands.

Now are students satisfied? well actually yes, but also no because since its a new college and we have been a batch of less than 300 students we were run through administration experiments on a spectrum to be tested.

Unlike us, that won't happen to you'll because then will have more students and then studetns will be given autonomy for decision making, atleast thats what we believe should happen.

More or less, BITS surpasses NMIMS and AMITY any SENSE. But please make sure you're not quite literally taking an education loan. Its actually extremely expensive, and its fees has an increment of 8% every year.

You wouldn't want to graduate with an education loan of 75-80 lacs to fill in.

What do you know of faculty salary? My friends work there. They are being paid the same money that they would have got in a public university paying 7th CPC. "Constant poaching?" How many people from NLSIU, NALSAR, NUJS etc. have quit their universities and joined BITS lately unless they really need to stay in Mumbai and GLC or MNLUs were not an option?

1. "The faculty is very well paid." Are you able to elaborate on this, with evidence? Is the pay at or above 7th CPC?

2. "We have some of the best and most qualified faculties that can be found across the country." Again, what more can you say about these faculty. Have they done postgraduate degrees from the world's finest universities? Have they gotten amazing work experience after their BALLBs? Or do they have both - amazing work experience + good LLM and/orPhD?

The faculty is well paid because, again an assumption but the expense our faculty makes is not something which is possible by just any professor who is at 7th CPC. Coming to your friend's point, i have no idea which professor you're talking about.

Talking about how well qualified the faculty is. Feel free to refer to the link below and analyse by yourself. That being said, the students love the faculty. Again to stay unbiased I WILL SAY there are

Sorry, continuing the above chain....

Not being biased. I WILL SAY that there are a few exceptions to whether students like or dontl like a faculty. But more or less the faculty is pretty amazing and we enjoy the discussions and conversations in class with them.

Unlike most NLU's or public unis they're very easily reachable and most faculties know most students at a very personal level because the batch size is very small. Any insight from these faculties knowing students very well, makes it a plus point.

Direct link to the faculties in college - https://www.bitslawschool.edu.in/faculty (you will find all the data for "qualifications" you would like to see)

Apart from that regardless of the public opinion or external judgements. In a student's capacity I would say, I love the faculties at my college. They're easy to access, communication doesn't feel like a brick in throat. They're flexible and are always ready to teach.

PS: You will find students sitting with faculties during lunch and dinner in groups discussing everything- from college academics to articles to general life or teaching since the students want to listen to them talking about topics.

There may be good faculty that get attracted to this place. It's because only NLS is doing hiring of faculties at a massive scale. Apart from NLS, noone is hiring, and if they do, the unreserved posts are 2-3 and 30 people with a PhD apply. In traditional universities, you've to know people to get in.

I asked 2 people who moved from NLU to the private university. They said they can't deal with all the sarkari ways of doing things. I would personally prefer a public university to teach, but all of my applications have resulted in failure.

Delete Jindal from this list, and I think you are okay (speaking as someone who knows two Jindal Law School grads on a personal and professional level, and an ex Jindal student who transferred to law school in England because according to them, Jindal is a "first order scam").