Nuals Kochi has dropped behind RMLNLU Lucknow and CNLU Patna in the preferences of Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) takers, as the seven oldest national law schools pecking order remained unchanged.
Triumvirate
Legally India’s Super 30 score, which has been calculated the last three years by averaging the all India ranks of the 30 top CLAT scorers choosing each college in the general list, revealed that NLSIU Bangalore, Nalsar Hyderabad and NUJS Kolkata remained the three most popular colleges by a wide margin.
The top 60 scorers in the CLAT almost all chose NLSIU Bangalore as their first preference. However, two CLAT takers ranked 30th rank and 51st, whose domicile was stated as Andhra Pradesh, chose Nalsar Hyderabad. Also bucking the NLSIU first pick trend were the 40th rank, who opted for Nalsar, and 49th, who selected NUJS Kolkata.
Nalsar Hyderabad dominated the preferences from 61st rank, except for three within the Nalsar cut-off choosing NUJS (71, 87 and 92), one Madhya Pradesh resident selecting NLIU Bhopal (79), and the 88th rank going for NLU Jodhpur.
Chasing pack
NLIU Bhopal, founded in 1997, again ranked ahead of 2001-founded NLU Jodhpur in top CLAT performers’ preferences, with an average rank of 169 amongst the ‘top’ 30 students selecting Bhopal.
The average top 30 rank at NLU Jodhpur was 217, while GNLU Gandhinagar and HNLU Raipur, both founded in 2003, came in sixth and seventh.
Movement
Nuals Kochi, which was founded in 2005, was the worst performer and dropped significantly in the rankings this year, having held eighth place in preferences last year, and ninth in 2011.
It was usurped by RMLNLU Lucknow and CNLU Patna in the rankings – the latter making a remarkable leap in preferences from second-to-last place in 2012 to ninth, also climbing ahead of the 11th-most preferred college RGNUL Patiala.
The remaining preferences between the youngest CLAT colleges – NLU Orissa and NLUJA Assam and NUSRL Ranchi, all founded between 2009 and 2010 - remained virtually unchanged.
Read 2012 Super 30 CLAT analysis
2013 CLAT preferences by Super 30 rank (average rank of top 30 admissions to each college)
2013 Super 30 preference | 2012 Super 30 pref | 2013 Super 30 score | 2013 Highest general list rank | ‘13 Lowest general list rank | ‘13 Cut-off mark | 2012 Highest rank | ‘12 Lowest rank | ‘12 Cut-off | ‘12 Super 30 score | ‘12 General list places | 2011 Super 30 pref | Founded | |
NLSIU Bangalore | 1 | 1 | 15.5 | 1 | 59 | 140.5 | 1 | 58 | 145 | 16.6 | 55 | 1 | 1987 |
Nalsar Hyderabad | 2 | 2 | 71.7 | 30 | 104 | tbc | 11 | 102 | 142 | 70.2 | 41 | 2 | 1998 |
NUJS Kolkata | 3 | 3 | 120.7 | 49 | 223 | 130.75 | 20 | 215 | 138 | 116.5 | 78 | 3 | 1999 |
NLIU Bhopal | 4 | 4 | 169.1 | 79 | 245 | 129.75 | 103 | 273 | 136 | 185.2 | 33 | 4 | 1997 |
NLU Jodhpur | 5 | 5 | 216.6 | 88 | 318 | 127 | 78 | 312 | 135 | 198.2 | 75 | 5 | 2001 |
GNLU Gandhinagar | 6 | 6 | 321.9 | 196 | 429 | 123.75 | 219 | 455 | 132 | 326.4 | 78 | 6 | 2003 |
HNLU Raipur | 7 | 7 | 400.1 | 322 | 529 | 116.75 | 270 | 528 | 131 | 382.5 | 60 | 7 | 2003 |
RMLNLU Lucknow | 8 | 9 | 427.8 | 238 | 577 | 120.5 | 329 | 595 | 130 | 464.2 | 64 | 8 | 2006 |
CNLU Patna | 9 | 12 | 545.5 | 303 | 759 | 116.75 | 313 | 797 | 128 | 694 | 58 | 11 | 2006 |
Nuals Kochi | 10 | 8 | 553.5 | 201 | 763 | 116.75 | 190 | 638 | 130 | 439.7 | 41 | 9 | 2005 |
RGNUL Patiala | 11 | 10 | 586.5 | 493 | 698 | 118 | 208 | 692 | 129 | 536.9 | 71 | 10 | 2006 |
NLUO Orissa | 12 | 11 | 623.3 | 277 | 863 | 115.5 | 323 | 816 | 128 | 595.2 | 78 | n/a | 2009 |
NLUJA Assam | 13 | 14 | 790.1 | 667 | 833 | 115.75 | 408 | 857 | 127 | 800.6 | 30 | n/a | 2009 |
NUSRL Ranchi | 14 | 13 | 797.7 | 345 | 789 | 116.5 | 490 | 839 | 127 | 775.4 | 24 | n/a | 2010 |
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1. NLSIU
2. NUJS
3. NLU Jodhpur
4. NALSAR
Also, in terms of cut-off mark, the ranking would be:
1. NLSIU
2. NUJS
3. NLU Jodhpur
4. NALSAR
Its interesting, as lowest general rank and cut-off marks may reflect overall class benchmark which is not the case with top 30.
I believe that these ranks do not mean much as it if difficult to comment on potential of young students based on performance on test-day and fixed set of questions. These ranks would not make a good lawyer, it is first step indeed, but its what these students do in law school and thereafter that would count.
Students: note that it only reflects CLAT preference ranking and not the industry ranking. Choose carefully.
356 ranked person is through the state domicile quota.
Please correct.
also, doesn't the "last rank" column and the cut-off column provide essentially the same information?
Can you also provide a column which tells us how many students eligible to get a particular college opted for a "lower" college, (possibly as a percentage of total seats)? That number would probably be 4 for NLS (out of 55?) and 5 for Nalsar (out of 41). This would provide some data on how close it is between this college and the next (clearly in terms of preferences it is not close between NLS and Nalsar, or between Nalsar and anybody else).
thanks, this analysis is fun for statistically minded, bored lawyers
For those in the know, it is the present administrators at schools like NLU-Jodhpur and NALSAR-Hyderabad who are showing the much needed initiative to hire motivated law teachers by providing an enabling environment for curriculum reform. NLU-Delhi has attracted some exceptional teachers, primarily owing to its locational advantages, and NUJS Kolkata is still benefiting from some of the far-sighted decisions made by its previous V-C. In my personal opinion, there's not much to differentiate between these five law schools. Evidently, law school aspirants are making decisions on the basis of limited access to information, despite the emergence of websites such as LegallyIndia and BarandBench.
"... I studied at NLSIU between 2003 and 2008 which was before Prof. R. Venkata Rao joined the institution. Furthermore, I was engaged in a temporary teaching position from July 2011 to February 2013, which is when Prof. Rao dismissed me from service for merely trying to start an internal discussion on campus management and academic reforms. NLSIU has produced more than a dozen Rhodes scholars before 2009 and recorded wins at International moot courts in the past as well. Prof. R. Venkata Rao is merely reaping the benefits of the institutional culture developed since 1988. His tenure over the last four years has been marked by a visible decline in teaching standards, primarily because he allocated subjects to instructors with no background in the respective disciplines. Furthermore, he has discontinued the previously established practice of weekly faculty meetings and as outlined above, he also interferes with evaluation of examinations by subject-teachers.
Posted by Sidharth Chauhan at 04/21/2013 01:34"
From what I've gathered from reliable sources at NLSIU, Sidharth Chauhan was a well-regarded teacher and his allegations against Prof. R. Venkata Rao are pretty serious. Grade-inflation, refusal to call faculty meetings and allotting subjects without considering the experience and expertise of teachers are definitely academic malpractices. I can't understand why parents might want to send their children to a once eminent institution that appears to have been weakened by a power-hungry Vice-Chancellor. He had even removed his predecessor in office, Prof. Jayagovind (a well regarded scholar of International Law) who has been forced to take-up a visiting position at NLU-Delhi after teaching at NLSIU for 24 years. Any V-C who arbitrarily removes committed teachers like Prof. Jayagovind and Mr. Sidharth Chauhan, is surely not thinking about the welfare of his students.
I don't think many people outside NLSIU know about the gravity of the situation. Apart from removing Dr. Jayagovind and Mr. Sidharth Chauhan in the most arbitrary fashion, the present V-C has also prevented the return of established teachers such as Prof. Babu Mathew and Prof. Sitharamam Kakarala who had played an important role in the development of the institution in the 1990s. As I had hinted in my earlier comment, highly qualified alumni such as Mrinal Satish (JSD from Yale, 2012), Aparna Chandra (JSD from Yale, 2013), Mr. N.S. Nigam (D. Phil from Oxford) and Mr. Naveen Thayyil (PhD from Tilburg University) had inquired about teaching positions over the last one year and were not given any assurances. If the V-C was serious about recruiting them, he could have easily informed them about the advertisement for regular positions that was eventually issued in May 2013.
The most serious problem is with the manner in which the V-C has used his personal discretion to increase grades for students who had otherwise failed in the respective subjects. I have previously studied at NLSIU and have learned from reliable sources in the faculty that Prof. R. Venkata Rao has arbitrarily increased marks in almost all subjects taught in the undergraduate programme. This has led to a situation where many students refuse to do the assigned readings and are highly indifferent in the classroom. While the overall standard of teaching continues to be poor, this regime of sops and concessions has de-motivated the better teachers as well. I heard that Prof. M.P. Pillai is planning to pack his bags after teaching company law at NLS for more than 20 years. Shreya Rao (who has taught Income-Tax at NLSIU for the 3 last years) had written a letter to Prof. Rao about these concerns but has not received a response as yet. I have already mentioned the names of 10 individuals in this comment who would otherwise be contributing to the classroom teaching in NLSIU, if not for the shortsightedness of its' present V-C.
On a personal note, I am quite baffled by the silence on part of current students and alumni following the unjust removal of Sidharth Chauhan in February 2013. He is a personal friend and I know that the only reason that he has not dragged NLSIU to the Karnataka High Court is because of his loyalty to the institution. The faculty representatives on the school's Executive Council have confirmed that the contents of Sidharth Chauhan's open letters were not even discussed before passing a resolution that empowered the V-C to act as he deemed fit. This only goes to show that unless alumni are given formal representation on the EC, that body will continue to be a toothless tiger.
I can understand that many current students will not speak up against the V-C for fear of retaliation. Some of them blindly support him due to the concessions given such as grade-inflation, condonation of attendance shortages and prolonged extensions of project submission deadlines. In short, the populism of the present V-C has undone the institutional practices that had turned NLSIU into an enviable brand. Coupled with his lack of tolerance for any criticism, I am quite shocked and ashamed at what he has done to my alma mater. I urge all NLSIU alumni to lobby against a second term for Venkata Rao.
Prof. RVR enjoyed the tag of NLS. Along with Prof.RVR, if few bad elements are shown their way.. then, probably, NLS may be restored to its original glory... Prof. RVR acted as a catalyst for all the wrong doings.. What makes BCI sleep on all his issues...
Autonomous body .. problems.. powers vested on a wrong individual... be ready for its consequences...
A concerned NLS alum called the NLS land line.
Receptionist: "Good morning. You've reached National Law School. How can I help you?"
Concerned NLS alum: "Err - can I speak to Mr. When Quit Rao?"
Receptionist: "Sure Sir, please hold on."
(line is transferred)
V.C. "Hello."
Concerned NLS Alum: "Am I speaking to Mr. When Quit Rao?"
V.C. "Yes - Wont Quit Rao speaking."
. . . .
Put NLU-D as 1st choice? And then remain unemployed at the end of 5 years?
Better placements than NLUJ also.
www.legallyindia.com/201305163677/Law-schools/day-zeros-nlu-delhi-rcc-confirms-12-jobs-3-vac-schemes-jindal-on-8-and-2-white-case
Nothing personal, but please don't use strong language while speaking about any University. Frankly, to my mind, there a lot of factors which influence a student to prefer a college over the other. For eg - Assuming the 160th CLAT rank holder (from Tamilnadu) wanted to study law, but couldn't make it through to NLS or NALSAR. Now, if the student was not given the option to move beyond South India for personal reasons and ends up in NUALS, does that indicate his/her choice? I personally know of a batch in NUALS which has around 10 people ranked above 350 and most of them chose NUALS for the primary reason that they were Keralites. Does this speak of the University's performance or the students' choice?
True, the scores do indicate a trend. But they are not complete by themselves. They are just an indicator. And if they are used to pass conclusive judgments with disparaging language, to my mind again, that's incorrect.
@ Simple Mathematician: try to refrain from comparing NLUJ with NLIU or the other lawschools. Look at the NLUJ motto and focus on it. Since when did NLUJ start bad-mouthing other colleges?
All this is humbug. You can do well at any place and at any time in your life.
A true thinking... ...
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