The Consortium of National Law Universities has published the second CLAT 2025 cut-off on June 4, 2025. With the release of the CLAT 2025 cut-off for the first and second rounds, candidates are eagerly awaiting the NLU cut-off 2025 for the lower-ranked National Law Universities (NLUs). While the premier NLUs like NLSIU Bengaluru, NALSAR Hyderabad, and WBNUJS Kolkata demand ranks within 100 to 200, the lowest-ranked NLUs offer a lifeline for candidates with moderate scores and ranks. In this article, let’s look at the CLAT 2025 cut-offs for lowest lowest-ranked NLUs where candidates can secure NLU admission despite having a low score in the revised CLAT 2025 result, which was declared on May 17, 2025.
The CLAT 2025 cut-off is an important requirement that candidates need to clear to secure NLU admission. Through the Common Law Admission Test, candidates are admitted into the law programmes of 24 participating NLUs and 60+ affiliated colleges.
The lowest-ranked NLUs with cutoffs have been selected based on the NIRF Law Rankings 2024. The CLAT general cut-off for the lowest-ranked NLUs serves as a reliable measure for determining whether a cutoff is high or low. For other categories, CLAT cutoffs exhibit considerable variation across NLUs due to domicile-based reservation policies. However, for other categories, the CLAT cutoff indicates considerable variation across NLU, primarily due to the domicile reservation.
NLU | NIRF 2024 Rank |
22 | |
24 | |
26 | |
27 | |
31 | |
31 | |
38 | |
39 |
The table below provides the CLAT 2025 cut-off trends observed for the lowest NLUs.
CLAT 2025 Cut-off (Round 2) for Lowest-Ranked NLUs: General, OBC, SC, ST, and EWS
NLU | Closing rank (General) | Closing rank (OBC) | Closing rank (SC) | Closing rank (ST) | Closing rank (EWS) |
RGNUL Patiala | 1260 | - | 8785 | 11901 | - |
CNLU Patna (BA LLB) | 1398 | 7359* | 11590* | - | 1950* |
CNLU Patna (BBA LLB) | 1547 | 8139* | 12662* | - | 2316* |
NUALS Kochi | 1341 | - | - | - | - |
NLU Odisha BA LLB | 1007 | - | 7247 | 12211 | - |
NLU Odisha BBA LLB | 1170 | - | 7891 | 13134 | - |
NUSRL Ranchi BA LLB | 1643 | 3445 | 9716 | 15006 | 2446 |
NUSRL Ranchi BBA LLB | 1729 | 3855 | 11351 | - | 2551 |
NLUJA Assam | 2051 | 40275* | 25783* | 39689* | - |
DSNLU Visakhapatnam | 1623 | 3398 | 9330 | 15023 | 2180 |
MNLU Mumbai | 558 | - | - | - | - |
*state category reservation
NLU Name | Closing rank (General) | Closing rank (OBC) | Closing rank (SC) | Closing rank (ST) | Closing rank (EWS) |
RGNUL Patiala | 1146 | - | 8126 | 11761 | - |
CNLU Patna BA LLB | 1278 | 3083 (BC-Bihar) | 11577 (SC-Bihar) | 16829 (ST-Bihar) | 1922 (EWS-Bihar) |
CNLU Patna BBA LLB | 1424 | 3905 (BC-Bihar) | 15604 (SC-Bihar) | 27043 (ST-Bihar) | 3905 (EWS-Bihar) |
NUALS Kochi | 1175 | - | 15029 (SC-Kerala) | 32306 (ST-Kerala) | 22632 (EWS-Kerala) |
NLU Odisha BA LLB | 943 | - | 6557 | 11889 | - |
NLU Odisha BBA LLB | 1034 | - | 7711 | 12684 | - |
NUSRL Ranchi BA LLB | 1476 | 3025 | 9324 | 13373 | 1911 |
NUSRL Ranchi BBA LLB | 1504 | 3634 | 9515 | 13619 | 2088 |
NLUJ Assam | 1643 | 32829 (OBC-Assam) | 25640 (SC-Assam) | 26581 (STP-Assam) | 18701 (EWS-Assam) |
DSNLU Visakhapatnam | 1489 | 3612 | 9240 | 13834 | 1872 |
MNLU Mumbai | 536 | 7008 (OBC-Maharashtra) | 12388 (SC-Maharashtra) | 13124 (ST-Maharashtra) | 7523 (EWS-Maharashtra) |
*state category reservation
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