National Law Universities

National Law Universities (NLU) are public law schools in India, founded pursuant to the second-generation reforms for legal education sought to be implemented by the Bar Council of India. The first NLU was the National Law School of India University aka NLS/NLU Bangalore which admitted its first batch in 1988. Since then, most of the states in India have NLUs. Currently there are 26 NLUs across the country out of which 1 is an off-centre campus of NLU Gandhinagar which is named as (GNLU SILVASSA Campus) . Since the inception of NLUs, these law schools have continuously been ranked as India's most prestigious and premier law schools by various agencies and are also referred as IITs of Legal Education.The admissions to these universities is conducted through the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) except in the case of National Law University, Delhi, which admits students through its own entrance examination named as All India Law Entrance Test (AILET), it is anticipated that in the coming years AILET will be merged into CLAT. Admission to the NLUs is extremely competitive with an acceptance rate as low as 2% to 3% in case of CLAT & approx 0.50% via AILET. CLAT which is also known as the main gateway to NLUs has been ranked as one of the Top 5 toughest entrance examinations in India. NLUs have Chief Justice of India (CJI) & various Chief Justices of Respective High Courts as their Chancellors and visiting professors, many retired Judges & Bureaucrats are also here as permanent faculty and Vice-Chancellors which makes it's faculty better than any other law schools in India. This is the only main reason that most of the NLU alumnus are well placed in coorporate companies & law firms around the globe with lakhs and crores of hefty packages and they are also doing excellent as Litigants in various Courts in India and are also clearing Judicial Services and Civil Services examinations in bulk by each passing year. Traditionally legal education in India was conducted through the medium of non-specialized universities of India which granted law degrees like any other graduate degree.