You may be familiar with names like Vikramjit Banerjee (Additional Solicitor General of India), Justice S. Sunil Dutt Yadav (Judge, High Court of Karnataka), Avi Prasad (IPS Officer), Chakravarti Singh Rathore (IAS Officer), Dorj Odbayar (Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Mongolia)- these personalities are just a few of the many that the National Law Universities of India has produced. There are many other NLU graduates who have successfully established for themselves a career in the field of law, making their presence felt in all areas- be it Civil Law, Corporate Law, Human Rights, Judiciary, Public Services etc.

For students who have been passionate about taking up law as a career, the Plan A is always to get into a National Law School. NLUs are considered to lead the pack, whether it is about placements or moot court wins. Surely, if you’re too seeking a career in law, you must be targeting to be a part of one of the NLUs and grow out to be as exceptional lawyers and scholars.

21 National Law Universities

Oldest: NLSIU, Bangalore

Newest: MPDNLU, Jabalpur

With the first NLU being set up in 1986, many other states followed the footsteps of NLSIU, Bangalore and established their law schools. With the newest being added in 2018 in Jabalpur, the count of the National Law Schools have come up to 21.

Apart from their most sought after courses

BBA/BA LLB (Hons.), LLM

NLUs also offer Research Degrees,
Bridge Courses, Distance Programs,
MBA (Insurance), Master of Public
Policy etc. depending upon the institute.

A Great Competition

With over 75,000 aspirants applying for CLAT, AILET and HPNLET every year, everyone is vying to be in the top colleges for a law degree. Even the institutes are in for a great competition and strive to offer anything but the best to the students.

With the latest technologies in classroom, great campuses, moot court competitions, insightful seminars and conferences with great luminaries, promising libraries and sough after placements,NLUs are constantly working to deliver the best in law education.

Not to forget, many law aspirants turn to countries abroad for a law degree and aim for the top law universities.

The top and the most popular choices being in the US and UK- Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, University ofCambridge, Oxford University, London School of Economics and Political Science among other are worth mentioning here. The point here is, when we talk about law schools in India, NLUs are considered what the Harvard University or Oxford University is considered in global law education.