If your are just starting your 5 years why do you expect yourself to have research papers/moots etc. I am at a T1 NLU and even here I know of only 2 people who had their legal research published before they started their degree. Just chill!

Research papers/moots are generally not of that much significance to internship selection unless you are thinking of interning with a T1 firm in your 3rd/4th/5th years or working with certain very selective NGOs (Project 39A, Vidhi, etc). In the case of T1 firms moots and research papers are both very important whereas for top NGOs moots are somewhat less important but you need to have done excellent research work.

Indeed, I can attest that a majority of the top 100 rankers do not achieve an AILET rank high enough to gain admission to NLUD. However, there are quite a few who indeed crack CLAT but prefer NLS, and then some who get a CLAT AIR high enough to get into NLS but prefer NLUD. In my opinion, NLS is no longer significantly better than NLUD after the batch increase, so I would rank both of them about the same.

The case of NALSAR is actually quite interesting; the institute is constantly falling in most of the NIRF parameters since the inception of NIRF. In recent times, top faculty like Sid.C and VBR have also left NALSAR for greener pastures. SKDR has also proved to be more of a paper-pusher than a change leader, just like his predecessor FM, who, at least to give him his due, was a decent law communicator. Furthermore, NALSAR's poor location is getting worse by the year, as opposed to, say, Nagarbhavi, which transformed from a rather sleepy village distinguished only by ISEC in 1991 to a pretty decent suburb by around 2015. Shamirpet, by contrast, was an insignificant village in 1998 and has remained one ever since.

Personally, my own ranking of the NLUs + JGLS would be:

NLS/NLUD > NALSAR > NLUJ/NLIU > NUJS/GNLU > JGLS > All other NLUs/private law schools.

My screenshots aren't actually getting pasted for some reason, nevertheless here is a text version of the data:

Number of Top 10 rankers

NLSIU 5

NALSAR 2

GNLU 1

Not in the Counseling Process 2

Number of Top 100 Rankers

NLSIU 85

NALSAR 4

GNLU 1

Not in the Counseling Process 10

Excluding students who left the counseling process;

NLSIU: 85 out of 90 students, accounting for 94.44%.

NALSAR: 4 out of 90 students, representing 4.44%.

GNLU: 1 out of 90 students, constituting 1.11%.

Vacancy Rates

- NLSIU: 13 seats vacated, 300 students admitted, vacancy rate 4.33%.

- NALSAR: 16 seats vacated, 135 students admitted, vacancy rate 11.85%.

- NUJS: 10 seats vacated, 108 students admitted, vacancy rate 9.26%.

- NLIU: 19 seats vacated, 114 students admitted, vacancy rate 16.67%.

- GNLU: 18 seats vacated, 172 students admitted, vacancy rate 10.47%.

PS: Why is my original post marked as contested? This data has been sourced from the consortium's website.

Over this weekend I have been seeing a lot of posts comparing NLUs. However what was missing was that there was no quantitative analysis of student perception of the said NLUs. This post aims to fill that gap.

A quick note for any aspirant reading this: CLAT rank does not denote the so called "merit" of any student. As long as you work hard and study diligently you will always do well in the field of law.

Data Used: I utilized the data from the 3rd list for this analysis, as I believe there won't be significant movement after the 3rd list in most of the NLUs I've considered. For the top 10 rankers, I searched for their ranks online and gathered information about their future plans to enhance my research.

Top 10 Rankers:

NLU

Number of Top 10 rankers

NLSIU

5

NALSAR

2

GNLU

1

Not in the Counseling Process

2

Half of the top 10 rankers opted for NLSIU, while 2 aspirants enrolled in NALSAR, and 1 chose GNLU. Additionally, it's worth noting that AIR 7 seems to have qualified for NLUD and intends to join it.

AIR 3, who is a coaching institute teacher, did not participate in the counselling process.

This data suggests that NLSIU is still the preferred choice among the top 10 Rankers. However note that 2 students joined NALSAR and 1 joined NLUD out of the 9 who opted for counselling, it is possible that NLSIU's recent batch size increase has put off some students.

I consider that a single digit CLAT AIR student joining GNLU was somewhat of a random event and so does not inform any meaningful discussion about the other T1 NLUs' student perception.

Top 100 Rankers:

NLU

Number of Top 100 Rankers

NLSIU

85

NALSAR

4

GNLU

1

Not in the Counseling Process

10

If we exclude the 10 Rankers who were not in the counselling process, the percentage of rankers joining the aforementioned institutions becomes:

NLU

Number of Top 10 Rankers

Percentage (out of 90)

NLSIU

85

94.44

NALSAR

4

4.44

GNLU

1

1.11

As we can see, when excluding those who did not join counselling, because they joined NLUD or other law schools or some other reason, NLSIU still remains the most preferred institute by a massive margin.

Vacancy Rates for selected 5 NLUs between 1st and 2nd Lists:

I only used the movement from the 1st to 2nd lists as for most of the NLUs considered, the movement from 2nd to 3rd list was not significant.

NLUsSeats VacatedStudents AdmittedVacancy Rate (%)

NLSIU133004.33NALSAR1613511.85NUJS101089.26NLIU1911416.67GNLU1817210.47

Thus as we can see students very rarely vacate their seats at NLSIU (likely because of its positive perception amongst most students), however rather surprisingly, the second lowest vacancy rates are at NUJS, so recent negative incidents at NUJS have not discouraged admitted applicants from pursuing their studies at NUJS.

The Vacancy Rates at both NALSAR and GNLU are quite in line with the average 12 to 13% vacancy at other NLUs (I did some rough back of the envelope calculations)

The vacancy rate at NLIU is in fact a little on the higher side, would love to know from you all why this is, although I would presume this is some kind of a fluke event this year.

Please give your opinions and feel free to point out any errors.

Notes:

1) I only compared the BA LLB courses, NLUJ's BSC LLB was not considered.

2) I know that GNLU isn't typically categorized as T1; however, I included it because a single-digit CLAT AIR student chose to join it. While this may not be statistically significant, it's nonetheless intriguing.

3) This analysis is not meant to question anyone's NLU preferences so please not not construe it that way.

PS: Kian, please improve the ability to paste tables here; my formatting from google sheets is looking very weird here.