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NLSIU: Rank 150-200 (ranked for 3rd year in a row, post efforts by Sudhir)
- Academic reputation (based on questionnaires sent to foreign universities): 79.7 for Jindal, 71.5 for NLSIU
- Citations (based on SCOPUS stats): 68 for Jindal, 54.2 for NLSIU
- H-Index citations (based on SCOPUS stats): 55.7 for Jindal, 45.2 for NLSIU
- International fees: USD 7,825 for Jindal, data missing for NLSIU
- International student mix: 1% for Jindal, data missing for NLSIU
ANALYSIS:
- NLSIU actually does pretty well in the research parameter, considering that the faculty size is much smaller than Jindal. It's like UK and France having almost the same GDP as India despite having only 4% of India's population.
- As for the academic reputation parameter, JGLS probably does better because it has a lot more tie-ups and a lot more of its students go abroad. So professors and admin at foreign universities will probably give Jindal better feedback on the questionnaire. NLSIU's tie-ups are limited and it has fewer students going abroad (although that may change with swelling batch sizes).
- Re employer reputation, tough to say why Jindal scored higher, but it's important to remember that children of several major law firm owners and senior partners are Jindal students or grads. So if a questionnaire went to them, then a higher score for Jindal is possible.
- Re international fees, NLSIU does not admit international students in the main list. So this perhaps worked to its detriment. Same for international student percentage, although the 1% for Jindal is hardly significant.
Finally, the question of why other NLUs are missing. First of all, it's important to remember that even NLSIU was missing until Sudhir took over and made a push. So the #1 requirement is a proactive VC. However, Jindal and NLSIU (post Sudhir) have poached a lot of their faculty and those NLUs are not in great shape now.
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/law-legal-studies