I have heard bad things about both too:

NUJS’ girl’s hostel is proving to be too small!

NUJS’ administrative staff is a nightmare!

NALSAR’s 20% Andhra reservations isn’t a good thing to happen!

NALSAR’s new Vice Chancellor is leading to it’s downfall, big time!

Seems like NUJS has a full-fledged PR machinery in here! Sorry to interrupt the pomp and circumstance, but let’s just clear the air regarding some facts that have been obfuscated and some that have been overlooked.

There has been much clamouring about NUJS’ placements, purportedly better than the others. I don’t see where this is coming from at all. If we are talking sheer numbers, let’s not forget that NUJS had to place a lot more of its students than NALSAR and NLS - a substantial 75 or so. It is but natural that a larger pool of students would mean a larger pool of quality students who would be placed by the top law firms. This is amply reflected in placements by Indian firms. But there is no proportional increase in foreign placements to account for the larger student body. The total number of foreign placements is 3, which is unimpressive. NALSAR and NLS have managed 4 and 8 respectively, despite a smaller batch.

Over to foreign LLMs. A mere 5 students are choosing to study further on graduation. This is compared to NALSAR’s 8, despite it’s smaller batch. NALSAR students have gained admission in Harvard and Yale - probably the only students in this year’s graduating batch from any law school in the country to be admitted to those institutions. This is apart from the several who are going to Oxford, Cambridge or NYU. NUJS kids, in comparison, are going to less prestigious universities such as “New York University (NYU), National University of Singapore (NUS), George Washington University, King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London, Notre Dame Law School, Chicago-Kent College of Law, DePaul University Chicago, Dickinson School of Law Penn State, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Colorado Law School, University of Iowa, University of Kent, University of Newcastle, University of Nottingham, University of Sussex and the University School of Law Indianapolis.” NALSAR students in the current graduating batch have bagged a Rhodes scholarship and the Commonwealth scholarship. No such news from NUJS.

What the aforementioned figures behooves us to do is to also examine NUJS’ much touted faculty and its nexus with student achievement. For a university with an ostensibly thriving academic culture, surely, we can expect a lot more students to be studying in the world’s top universities?

My intention is not to belittle NUJS or its achievements. But since the only press that NALSAR gets on this forum is from its overexcited first years, some perspective was in order.

@above.- Correct. This was the year when NUJS students didnt went to study abroad, but I have observed one thing in this batch that most of them had not planned to do so. Few of them tried, unlike last year where 15 students went abroad.

When, there is a larger batch, it become a challenging task to place all the students. NUJS had 75 students whi applied for placements and out of them 41 placed in top tier firms(Including foreign) - 54.6%. Morover, Linklaters made two offers and out of them only one was accepted.

NALSAR placed 27 of its students in top tier firms(Including foreign)- 27 out of 59 - 45.7 %.

So, 55% is greater than 46%.

NLSIU placements in top tier firms can be considered to be good proportionally including foreign firms. But, if we talk about top tier National Firms, NUJS scores above both NLSIU and NALSAR.

As far as Harvard and Yale are concerned, students from GNLU have also been able to get admission there.(Perhaps, HNLU too)

Students in NUJS are diversified unlike most of the NLUs, i.e. you can find students interested in every kind of field which includes entrepreneurship also. NALSAR lags in entrepreneurship to a great extent.

And, this is what making NUJS a unique institution.

NUJS any day now! The fantastic development as far as faculty is concerned and now these amazing placements…I’ll pick NUJS over NALSAR any day now!

Please see the last year stats for NUJS students studying abroad.

15 from NUJS and only 5 from NALSAR made it to the top foreign LLMs. NUJS’ LLMs included 1 in Oxford, 1 in NYU, , 1 in LSE, 4 in Kings College.

http://www.barandbench.com/brief/9/809/377-choose-law-firms-209-choose-in-house-and-98-choose-lit-career-paths-of-nlsiu-nalsar-and-nujs-graduates

A batch’s career preferences might be different. A faculty might encourage a large number of students to take up foreign LLMs. Or a group of 5-6 friends may decide to apply for LLMs and not go for firms etc. Factors such as these decide how many will opt what.

I’ll pick NUJS eyes closed now. The difference in the quality of faculty is just too big to ignore. Also, NUJS managed probably the best placements this year.

llm aur entrepreneurship toh sahi hai.

lekin…?

Placement is the yardstick most Indians measure colleges by and NUJS is easily ahead of NALSAR in this respect. NUJS placements have been fantastic. NALSAR has been good, but pale in comparison.

I think most would choose NUJS over NALSAR.

Even in faculty, location…NUJS is easiy superior. NALSAR has better infra though!

NUJS gains on NALSAR as old CLAT preferences wobble!

http://www.legallyindia.com/201106162164/Pre-law-student/old-school-clat-preferences-wobble-as-nujs-gains-on-nalsar-nliu-nlu-j-locked-dead-heat

i would refrain from any personal judgement and provide you with some statistics..the rest depends completely upto you

NUJS: http://barandbench.com/brief/2/1539/recruitment-tracker-nujs-places-cent-percent-students-amarchand-top-recruiter-conversation-with-campus-recruitment-committee-member

NALSAR: http://www.legallyindia.com/201104162030/Law-schools/nalsar-2011-59-desk-jobs-8-llms-with-in-house-filling-up-100-rcc-quota.

It seems also the NUJS people are commenting how great their institution is.