The margin between NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal is negligible this year, according to an analysis of the preferences of candidates taking the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT), while NUJS Kolkata has narrowed the gap slightly towards Nalsar Hyderabad in second place.
As in previous years, Legally India has compiled a “Super 30 Score” by averaging the all India CLAT rank of the 30 highest scoring candidates admitted to each university.
There has been no change in the Super 30 rankings of the top eight-preferred national law schools – NLSIU Bangalore, Nalsar, NUJS, NLIU, NLU Jodhpur, GNLU Gandhinagar, HNLU Raipur and RMLNLU Lucknow.
However, although NLIU Bhopal is still in fourth place in the CLAT preferences, Bhopal’s Super 30 was only 4.2 ranks ahead of Jodhpur this year, compared to a lead of 47 ranks last year.
Three potential NLSites ‘defect’ to NUJS
NLSIU Bangalore still scored 55 out of the top 60 CLAT scorers this year, however, this year the sixth and seventh rankers opted for NUJS. Rank 31 and 37 went to Nalsar Hyderabad, meanwhile, as rank 47 also opted for NUJS.
However, between rank 61 and 103, all candidates opted for Nalsar with the exception of the 67th and 102nd rank who went for NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal respectively.
From rank 104 NUJS dominates the preference rankings, with NLIU Bhopal and NLU Jodhpur beginning to make more regular appearances.
The rankings are illustrated in the charts below, which plot the all India CLAT rank of everyone admitted to each law college against each other. A lower line in the chart signifies that CLAT takers have preferred the college over another in their choice.
Younger NLU’s incoming CLAT ranks
Amongst the younger schools, RGNUL Patiala climbed two Super 30 ranks ahead of Nuals Kochi and CNLU Patna.
Nuals stayed in the same position but CNLU fell three places to twelth in the table.
NLU Orissa climbed one rank, while the newest national law schools NUSRL Ranchi and NLUJA Assam traded places at the bottom of the rankings.
Super 30 ranks & data
2014 Super 30 rank | ‘13 rank | 2014 Super 30 score | 2014 Highest general list rank | General list places '14* | 2013 Super 30 score | 2012 Super 30 pref | 2013 Highest general list rank | 2012 Highest rank | Founded | |
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NLSIU Bangalore | 1 | 1 | 17.2 | 1 | 53 | 15.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1987 |
Nalsar Hyderabad | 2 | 2 | 72.5 | 31 | 49 | 71.7 | 2 | 30 | 11 | 1998 |
NUJS Kolkata | 3 | 3 | 109.7 | 6 | 77 | 120.7 | 3 | 49 | 20 | 1999 |
NLIU Bhopal | 4 | 4 | 199.9 | 102 | 53 | 169.1 | 4 | 79 | 103 | 1997 |
NLU Jodhpur | 5 | 5 | 204.1 | 67 | 73 | 216.6 | 5 | 88 | 78 | 2001 |
GNLU Gandhinagar | 6 | 6 | 294.2 | 129 | 109 | 321.9 | 6 | 196 | 219 | 2003 |
HNLU Raipur | 7 | 7 | 397.2 | 391 | 86 | 400.1 | 7 | 322 | 270 | 2003 |
RMLNLU Lucknow | 8 | 8 | 406.5 | 270 | 82 | 427.8 | 9 | 238 | 329 | 2006 |
RGNUL Patiala | 9 | 11 | 516.8 | 297 | 68 | 586.5 | 10 | 493 | 208 | 2006 |
Nuals Kochi | 10 | 10 | 555.2 | 397 | 36 | 553.5 | 8 | 201 | 190 | 2005 |
NLUO Orissa | 11 | 12 | 634.9 | 443 | 39 | 623.3 | 11 | 277 | 323 | 2009 |
CNLU Patna | 12 | 9 | 677.8 | 568 | 56 | 545.5 | 12 | 303 | 313 | 2006 |
NUSRL Ranchi | 13 | 14 | 772.7 | 590 | 47 | 797.7 | 13 | 345 | 490 | 2010 |
NLUJA Assam | 14 | 13 | 799.3 | 632 | 31 | 790.1 | 14 | 667 | 408 | 2009 |
*Some figures are approximations. Methodology: Super 30 is the average of the top 30 India CLAT ranks admitted to each college. The All India CLAT rank is calculated from every CLAT taker admitted to national law schools.
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The line graphs are quite useful in that they show the entirety of applicants and you can tell across the board, including reservations and the like, which college is more popular with Clat takers.
The Super 30 is a Super 30 because a few of the newer colleges only have 30 general list places, so doing a Super 50 or 80 for them would result in a skewed result for them. And the top 30 at each college are a fairly representative sample of the general CLAT taker preferences, I think, though I'm not a statistician... :)
Was expecting graphs of better quality. This article has images which are probably ~600x300, not good enough for looking closely.
Pi's right, top 200 gen category preferences over years would help better in painting a picture of student preferences over time with a little lesser bias. For heatmaps, generate preferences over ranks with colours (gradients for bands, reds= tier 1, oranges=tier2 etc) to each university. You can easily generate this using a package called ggplot in R (a GNU Stat software) or alterantively in STATA.
Also, share the above data? Lesser asymmetric information = better choices.
However, off late, both NLSIU's and NUJS' reputation have suffered while NALSAR seems to be dong better.
Nevertheess, NLSIU and NUJS both still had probably the best recruitments among all law colleges in 2014(and placement stats are high on a CLAT takers agenda).
NUJS and NLSIU have easily the most proactive student bodies among Indian law colleges (thanks to Madhava Menon NUJS followed NLSIU's mode of having a Students Juridical Association).
Students in these colleges don't mind speaking before the administration, signing petition, complaining to the higher authorities and actually effectuating change; things which are unheard of in colleges like RGNUL Patiala or NLUJA Assam.
This makes NLS and NUJS very strong structurally and no VC or Registrar , howsoever bad can fuck up too much.
The Bongs made a wise choice of staying close to their homes and enjoying the best legal education on offer.
Brah! "faaccckkk"! Freedom of speech brah!
Whattey!
A posh location in a magnificent city, the best of placements, a proactive student body, the best faculty and a living legend for a head...alas!
Still, am waiting to see the present VC and registrar leave NUJS to see some reality in the NLSIU v. NUJS fight soon.
what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks.
Ok. Now go work/study.
NLSIU, NALSAR
-Gap-
NUJS
-Gap-
NLIU, NLUD, NLUJ
-Gap-
GNLU
-Gap-
Then lucknow,raipur,patiala & kochi
-Huge Gap-
The rest all, the less said the better !
Personally, beyond top six/seven, not really worth while .
How about this, the people with a rank worse than 500 go to one of these NLUs which supposedly aren't worth one's while, grow and better themselves over the 5 years?
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