The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) will release the CLAT 2025 cutoff on its official website- consortiumofnlus.ac.in. The CLAT 2025 cut-off 2025 will be available in the CLAT merit list 2025 published at the start of each counselling round for CLAT 2025 admission. Candidates who have secured a rank above the CLAT 2025 cut-off will be eligible for admission to a particular NLU. The CLAT NLU cut off 2025 depends on several factors like the difficulty level of the exam, seat availability and number of applicants. Candidates can check cutoff scores for top NLUs, ranks, and cutoffs from previous years to know their chances of admission to top NLUs.
The consortium will conduct CLAT 2025 on December 1 and declare the results on December 7, 2024. By appearing for the exam, law aspirants can participate in NLU admissions 2025 to get admission in the 5-year LLB and LLM programmes of participating NLUs.
Candidates can check the expected category-wise CLAT 2025 cutoff scores as predicted by Careers 360 experts.
NLU Name | General | EWS | OBC | SC | ST | NRI |
100+ | 95+ | 90+ | 83+ | 78+ | - | |
100+ | 95+ | 90+ | 82+ | 78+ | - | |
98+ | - | 56+* | 80+ | 74+ | 89+ | |
95+ | - | 88+ | 79+ | 74+ | 88+ | |
95+ | 90+ | 87+ | 77+ | 70+ | 84+ | |
93+ | 81+ | 77+* | 71+* | 41+* | 43+ | |
91+ | 85+ | 82+* | 53+* | 41+* | 72+ |
*state category reservation
Given below are the expected category-wise CLAT 2025 ranks according to Careers 360 experts.
Category | NLSIU Bengaluru | NALSAR Hyderabad | WBNJUS Kolkata | NLU Jodhpur | GNLU Gandhinagar | MNLU Mumbai | RMNLU Lucknow |
100 | 150 | 250 | 350 | 450 | 600 | 750 | |
500 | 550 | - | - | 1200 | 3900* | 2300* | |
950 | 1100 | 23000* | 1400 | 1850 | 6400* | 3600* | |
3000 | 3500 | 4500 | 5000 | 6000 | 10000* | 25000* | |
6000 | 6000 | 8000 | 8000 | 11000 | 34000* | 34000* | |
- | - | 1250 | 1400 | 2800 | 33000 | 9500 |
*state category reservation
Candidates can check the CLAT NLU cut-offs for the previous years in the tables given below to get an idea of what to expect this year.
NLU | General | EWS | OBC | SC | ST | |||||
Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | |
NLSIU Bengaluru | 1 | 102 | 122 | 523 | 151 | 971 | 372 | 3007 | 239 | 7487 |
NALSAR Hyderabad | 6 | 167 | 175 | 564 | 189 | 1116 | 1604 | 3574 | 263 | 6083 |
NLIU Bhopal (BA LLB) | 311 | 450 | 621 | 1376 | 1191 | 1315 | 4573 | 5178 | 8403 | 11527 |
NLIU Bhopal (BSc LLB) | 187 | 1047 | 1248 | 1777 | 1112 | 1959 | 6497 | 7622 | 13905 | 15219 |
WBNUJS Kolkata( BA LLB) | 140 | 279 | - | - | 2610* | 23192* | 2056 | 4503 | 5215 | 8860 |
WBNUJS Kolkata (BSc.LLB Hons) | 289 | 1010 | - | - | 7619* | 26986* | 4663 | 8958 | 10961 | 11917 |
NLU Jodhpur | 170 | 379 | - | 1079 | 1424 | 3574 | 5178 | 6666 | 8960 | |
HNLU Raipur | 434 | 791 | - | - | 1841 | 2069 | 3408 | 6765 | 9218 | 12035 |
GNLU Gandhinagar | 210 | 464 | 603 | 1248 | 1284 | 1858 | 4584 | 6175 | 7712 | 11580 |
GNLU Silvassa Campus | 593 | 1060 | 1113 | 1935 | 2225 | 2429 | 8833 | 10735 | 11291 | - |
RMLNLU Lucknow | 410 | 764 | 1022* | 2326* | 1170* | 3613* | 5397* | 10340* | 20456* | 34174* |
RGNUL Patiala | 502 | 1250 | - | - | - | - | 3234 | 10253 | 9562 | 16875 |
CNLU Patna (BA LLB) | 790 | 1358 | 1378* | 2122* | 2139* | 2776* | 4522* | 14864* | 23802* | - |
CNLU Patna (BBA LLB) | 1051 | 1552 | 1571* | 2703* | 2560* | 4147* | 13550* | 16714* | 1339* | - |
NUALS Kochi | 231 | 1136 | 6867* | 14922* | - | - | 12306* | 15245* | 13117 | - |
NLU Odisha | 591 | 1205 | - | - | - | - | 5997 | 9869 | 11580 | 16676 |
NUSRL Ranchi | 637 | 1594 | 1468 | 2255 | 1837 | 3005 | 5972 | 11124 | 16161 | 19635 |
NLUJA Assam | 1344 | 1704 | - | - | 7386* | 37438* | 8824* | 17168* | 17149* | 46899* |
DSNLU Visakhapatnam | 656 | 1390 | 1242 | 2195 | 2068 | 2940 | 8057 | 10568 | 11917 | 18342 |
TNNLU Tiruchirappalli BA LLB | 806 | 1628 | - | - | 1634 | 3135 | 9853 | 11289 | 38376* | - |
TNNLU Tiruchirappalli BCom LLB | 821 | 1711 | - | - | 2178 | 3800 | 10130 | 12418 | 16910 | 21607 |
MNLU Mumbai | 99 | 590 | 811* | 3932* | 2123* | 6468* | 4506* | 11392* | 24593* | 34264* |
MNLU Nagpur - BA LLB | 491 | 1587 | 3974* | 6285* | 3089* | 17245* | 11235* | 25115* | 29470* | 50326* |
MNLU Nagpur - BBA LLB | 611 | 1685 | 6100* | 16730* | 4790* | 14814* | 12722* | 29474* | 42740* | 46480* |
MNLU Aurangabad- BA LLB | 945 | 1832 | 4220* | 18008* | 14714* | 18004* | 8281* | 28813* | 41238* | - |
MNLU Aurangabad - BBA LLB | 681 | 2115 | 8662* | 18056* | 7755* | 19003* | 21344* | 29975* | 47604* | - |
HPNLU Shimla - BA LLB | 885 | 2102 | - | - | - | 9061 | 12158 | 13213 | 20412 | |
HPNLU Shimla - BBA LLB | 284 | 2150 | - | - | - | 9789 | 12740 | 16386 | 23188 | |
MPDNLU Jabalpur | 1060 | 1824 | 1935 | 2769 | 2677 | 3445 | 10083 | 12556 | 16830 | 23145 |
DBRANLU Sonepat | 503 | 2050 | 1887 | 2687 | 2273 | 3861 | 9107 | 12447 | 17161 | 23000 |
NLUT Agartala | 1716 | 2243 | - | - | - | - | 32520* | - | 31488* | - |
*state category reservation
General | EWS | OBC | SC | ST | ||||||
NLU | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank | Opening rank | Closing rank |
14 | 239 | 302 | 940 | 165 | 1236 | 385 | 1642 | 2253 | 3663 | |
119 | 298 | 884 | 990 | 531 | 1432 | 699 | 2247 | 4313 | - | |
300 | 651 | - | - | 1217 | 1992 | 2749 | 3721 | 4726 | 5970 | |
158 | 620 | - | - | 1952* | 11255* | 805 | 2732 | 3263 | 5555 | |
290 | 638 | - | - | 1236 | 2039 | 2209 | 3465 | 3880 | 5562 | |
564 | 1094 | - | - | 1939 | 3428 | 3815 | 5056 | 5562 | 7718 | |
125 | 627 | 851 | 1205 | 1177 | 2757 | 2976 | 3815 | 5555 | 6372 | |
634 | 1267 | 1083 | 2237 | 2145 | 3858 | 3779 | 6459 | - | - | |
19 | 261 | 562* | 1307* | 315* | 2145* | 19* | 1628* | |||
90 | 987 | 1883 | 5971 | 5417 | 6881 | |||||
486 | 1707 | 4815 | 9708 | - | - | 6171 | 8179 | 9811 | - | |
494 | 1358 | - | - | - | - | 4010 | 5215 | 6881 | 8575 | |
827 | 1623 | 1343 | 3062 | 1778 | 3234 | 4860 | 6869 | 5241 | 6097 | |
1321 | 2195 | - | - | 4205* | 11821* | 6383* | 9703* | 8483 | 9702 | |
754 | 2033 | 1700 | 2420 | 2771 | 3929 | 5118 | 6890 | 6196 | 9326 | |
TNNLU Tiruchirappalli (Corporate and Securities law) | 660 | 1578 | - | - | 1818 | 4028 | 4162 | 5338 | 11187* | - |
TNNLU Tiruchirappalli (Intellectual Property law) | 641 | 1011 | - | - | 1956 | 3236 | 4753 | 6848 | - | - |
TNNLU Tiruchirappalli (Natural Resources Law) | 1006 | 2246 | - | - | 3019 | 4108 | 5401 | 7072 | - | - |
242 | 727 | 2705* | 4227* | 2000* | 3683* | 5070* | 5242* | 5368* | 9388* | |
1 | 1808 | 6366* | 9403* | 5499* | 9083* | 4731* | 9822* | 7928* | 10923* | |
924 | 2250 | 2833* | 8514* | 5454* | 9280* | 6051* | 9876* | 10127* | - | |
623 | 2132 | - | - | - | - | 4191 | 6997 | 6614 | 8575 | |
1216 | 2278 | 1618 | 2532 | 2777 | 3299 | 4569 | 5545 | 8418 | 9145 | |
1619 | 2530 | - | - | - | - | 9760* | 11928* | 9326* | 9637* | |
On Question asked by student community
Hello Purvi,
You can access the CLAT Last 5 Year Question Papers with Detailed Solutions (2021-2026) through the link provided below:
https://law.careers360.com/download/sample-papers/clat-last-five-year-question-papers-answer-key
Hope this Helps!
Hi,
You can check out the list of colleges that offer 5-year LLB admissions without entrance exams here
Several top law colleges are accepting the CLAT score, other than the NLUs. These include:
Candidates can check out the detailed list of non-NLUs accepting CLAT for admission in
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You can check NLU wise marks required in CLAT PG for admissions here .
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You can refer to books like AP Bhardwaj for legal aptitude, RS Aggarwal for reasoning, and dedicated guides like CULET Guide by Dipanjan Mitra for best preparation for CULET. Additionally, you can refer to the CULET previous year question papers .
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