NUJS Kolkata’s 2020 graduating batch has seen a stonking so-called Day Zero of recruitments so far, which has seen between 33 to 35 students secure pre-placement offers (PPOs) and at least around 30 students accepted around 40 offers to start in 2020, after recruiters’ campus interviews.
While, in now time-honoured tradition, the NUJS recruitment committee declined to comment or confirm figures, citing policy, we understand from sources that the above numbers are an accurate reflection.
The NUJS 2020 graduating batch has a strength of around 120. The PPOs have skyrocketed since last year’s Day Zero, when there were at least 20 PPOs in the bag by this time, though last year around 84 job offers had been made, resulting in a total of around 60 acceptances.
These figures do not include any training contracts or vacation schemes.
NUJS students saw a huge number of offers made this year by domestic law firms, led by Trilegal, which made a grand total of 21 offers (though we are not sure how many of those were accepted).
Approximate breakdown of the 40-odd Day Zero offers made, below:
- Trilegal: 21 offers
- Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas: 8 offers
- Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas: 2 offers
- AZB & Partners: 7 offers
- L&L Partners: 2 offers
Accepted offers, including via PPOs include:
- Khaitan & Co: 4 accepted offers
- TT&A: 1
- Indus: 4
- Argus: 1
- Desai & Diwanji: 2
ICICI Bank is expected to interview on campus on 15 April.
We ran the above figures past the campus recruitment committee, which declined to comment.
Thanks to all NUJS students who (secretly) assisted us with collating these numbers.
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Sorry to tell you but your numbers are wrong.
Cheers,
V ( Noojie).
1. NLSIU: 15.2 lakhs
2. NALSAR and NUJS: 15 lakhs (joint 2nd)
4. NLUJ: 14.5 lakhs
5. NLUD: 13.8 lakhs
6. Symbiosis: 9.75 lakhs
7. NLIU: 9.2 lakhs
8 RNGUL: 7.5 lakhs
9. IIT: 7.4 lakhs
10. GNLU: 6 lakhs
11. RMLNLU: 4.8 lakhs
12. ILI: 4.4 lakhs
13. KIIT: 3.9 lakhs
14. Ambedkar: 2.2 lakhs
15. Jamia: 0
I'll venture a guess and say that domicile reservation may not automatically tank placements. I guess the caveat is that historically people don't sit for placements in the same numbers or proportion as NUJS.
NALSAR has to put them at this stage because they could get only 40 people placed so far.
Their figures are the same as last year's even though this was their first batch of 120 students instead of 80.
Batch increase 80%, placements increase 0%.
It is 50%. Rest of the point remains valid but you suck at math (like most law students).
Though there has been an increase in batch size,the amount of students that opted for placements is in the mid-60’s.
Clearly placing nearly 50 students(in top 6 or foreign firms) out of 65 odd students who sat for placements at day 0 shows the great recruitment season Nalsar has had.
They literally recorded the highest placement across all NLUs without a proper VC and Registrar. I'm told that the 'Acting' VC was on leave the entire month of March and April.
High time students from other NLUs wake up, take a cue and seize control of their Universities instead of sucking up to their 'VC sir' like the NLS SBA.
All that they're still intended on is running the institution to the ground. If all you can do is make things worse, at least don't stop the students from making the best.
Could the year get any better for NUJS after all they have gone through!
(Though I don't understand why their RCC refuses to disclose the figures. They have been recording more placements than NLS and NALSAR combined since the last two years.)
I won't ask for proof from NUJS students anymore. Now i am convinced that NUJS should be ranked 3rd. Therefore, I request NLU-D trolls to keep calm and wait for Batch of 2019 official recruitment figure.
Regards,
Orvind
And something is definitely rotten in NUJS - Taluk & Sen, Faulty, Overpaid DEOs
In the past we had such faculty (shamnad, sudhir, prabhash, preetam etc.) - they have all left. Now we have faulty and a handful of good teachers who are constantly on the look out for an opportunity to move out. its not just the students to be blamed for this- what has the admin done to make them stay?? We dont have even a single professor who has published anything worth mentioning anywhere. Almost all out them publish in the journals run by rather particular. Infact, show me one issue of those journals without at least one article from our faulty.
NUJS survives almost entirely on student efforts (and a small number of faculty who supports them). As someone pointed out earlier- this stands as a testimony to their talent, persistence and efforts. If they had some better admin support and a few more good faculty members (and not more of faulty) NUJS can very well climb to the top.
1. Invite good profs from other law schools in India, especially those publishing a lot, for guest lectures and short courses.
2. The ones likely to come are those who are alumni, or those who have family in Kolkata, or those who used to teach at NUJS and have goodwill towards the place.
3. In addition to teaching, propose an arrangement where NUJS students can jointly author publications with them, or some other type of arrangement where NUJS can share credit for research.
The NIRF research score was shockingly low. Even a minor increase can push NUJS to #2 overall.
What I mean to point out again is the lack of faculty publications (except in some rather particular kind of journals) and overlooking that is not easy.
And dont give me the response that you will find them if you look for them. I looked and I saw nothing much. There are Journal Articles by S. Bhat and an OUP book by Dr. Srinivasulu (someone below pointed this out - thank you to him/her). Im not counting lexis nexis into this - they are not much of a great academic publisher (they publish works aimed at practitioners or they publish guide books).
So stop beating around the bush and state the specifics.
So far as I understand, NUJS faculty sucks big time. The place has a name only because of the brilliant students and their hard work, despite these odds.
I will give you an example: Afghanistan's Rashid Khan may be a better bowler than someone like Umesh Yadav. But India will still thrash Afghanistan in any match.
The reason? NUJS' committees and societies which are managed by the students teach them the ropes of 'getting things done' from a very young age.
Another 'related' reason? The student body at NUJS is strong and backed by liberal provisions in the constitution.
1. Placements and current employment status
2. UPSC performance
3. Judicial service exam performance
4. AOR exam
5. LLM/PhD admissions and scholarships
6. Selection for IIMs
7. Prestigious scholarships: Rhodes, Gates, Chevening, Fulbright, DAAD etc
This will help someone which NLU in the best based on current data (as opposed to past legacy). We can determine whether NALSAR, NUJS and NLUD are waaaay behind NLSIU (which CLAT preferences suggest), or at par.
1. Sudhir Krishnaswamy (Azim Premji, soon NLSIU VC)
2. Shamnad Basheer
3. Vishwas Devaiah (JGLS)
4. Pritam Baruah (JGLS)
5. Prabhash Ranjan (NLUJ, then South Asian University)
6. Chinmayi Arun (NLUD)
7. Daniel Matthew (NLUD)
8. Manoj SInha (ILI)
On the other hand, Prabhash Ranjan, despite being only Assistant Professor rank, has published in a whole bunch of international journals.
On could argue about quality over quantity, but a ranking like NIRF needs to be objective. Thus, the best way to rank research is just go by the number of publications is a pre-determined list of journals (or simply journals listed in JSTOR, Westlaw and HeinOnline) plus a list of top publishers.
Further, do remember that a university's purpose is to cater to all its students and not only the best ones. Going by your logic, if a student from GLC Mumbai manages to score a VS (which has happened in the past at least once), then that alone is enough to put GLC ahead of most NLUs in terms of placement. That is simply not logical. That's why your Olympic analogy was not an apt one.
NUJS CRC will release Batch of 2019 recruitment figure soon. Then you could start preparing the medal tally for all the NLU's.
1. NLSIU
2. NALSAR
3. NUJS
4.NLUJ
5. NLIU
6. GNLU
7. HNLU
8. RGNUL
9. RMLNLU
10. NLUO
11. MNLU- M
12. CNLU
13. NUALS
14. NUSRL
15 NLUJA (Assam)
www.facebook.com/RSCMforCLAT/
Disclaimer: Not from NUJS. Not even a fan of JK Rowling. Not even sure what the course is all about.
barandbench.com/clat-2019-postponed-to-may-26-in-view-of-lok-sabha-elections/
B. Didn't know firms these days are looking into elective natures and faculty CV along with students'? Which firms will these be and when did their HRs started doing this from?
That said, I agree with the inflated grade problem, but that's there in most NLUs these days. Even Kian's incomplete figures clearly say in terms of Day Zero, far more students got placed from NUJS than from anywhere else. Counter that with numbers. TCs can't be used as a comparison metric for a batch since only 5% of a batch apply for and 1% get those.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/more-foreign-law-cos-snap-up-nalsar-grads/articleshow/68947134.cms
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I was waiting at a furniture shop for a friend. I saw a loose page on a bench and read it from a distance.. There was a small report in the side, just 3-4 lines. I do not know the date, but it could have been a bit old. I did not take the page, it was a dirty scrap page. I am from West Bengal but not NUJS, but I am appearing for LLM CLAT.
I cannot remember now if it said state has proposed the name for Asansol campus of NUJS or Kolkata campus.
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