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    CLAT 2026 Rank Under 1000-2000 - NLUs to Target and Perfect Preference List as per your rank

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    Sansar Singh ChhikaraUpdated on 16 Dec 2025, 07:34 PM IST

    The Consortium of NLUs will declare the CLAT 2026 results by December 17, 2025. Once the CLAT exam results 2026 are out, candidates will know what AIR they got in the CLAT exam. In this article, we will discuss what NLU candidates can expect in a CLAT 2026 rank between 1000 to 2000. Going by the cutoffs, NLU Odisha is the best NLU for general category in this range. NLU Odisha BA LLB, RGNUL Patiala, NUALS Kochi, CNLU Patna (BA LLB), GNLU Silvassa Campus, MNLU Nagpur - BA LLB are some of the colleges available for admission in CLAT 2026 rank 1000 to 2000. Apart from this, in this article, candidates can find the perfect NLU preference list 2026 for CLAT rankholders 1000 to 2000.

    CLAT 2026 Rank Under 1000-2000 - NLUs to Target and Perfect Preference List as per your rank
    CLAT 2026 Rank Under 1000-2000

    CLAT 2026 NLUs Available in Rank 1000-2000 - General Category

    NLU Name

    Opening Rank

    Closing Rank

    CNLU Patna (BBA LLB)

    1,215

    1,555

    MNLU Nagpur - BBA LLB

    1,214

    1,623

    NUSRL Ranchi BBA LLB

    1,164

    1,760

    TNNLU Tiruchirappalli BA LLB

    1,231

    1,763

    TNNLU Tiruchirappalli BCom LLB

    1,259

    1,947

    MNLU Aurangabad- BA LLB

    1,023

    1,949

    NLUJA Assam

    1,163

    2,141

    MPDNLU Jabalpur

    1,371

    2,243

    MNLU Aurangabad - BBA LLB

    1,361

    2,393

    RPNLU Prayagraj

    1,446

    2,469

    HPNLU Shimla - BBA LLB

    1,298

    2,634

    IIULER Goa BA LLB

    1,314

    2,784

    IIULER Goa BBA LLB

    1198

    2832

    NLUT Agartala

    1,964

    2,855

    NLU Odisha BA LLB

    469

    1,013

    NLU Odisha BBA LLB

    552

    1,176

    RGNUL Patiala

    565

    1,279

    NUALS Kochi

    350

    1,346

    CNLU Patna (BA LLB)

    882

    1,398

    GNLU Silvassa Campus

    755

    1,461

    MNLU Nagpur - BA LLB

    722

    1,529

    NUSRL Ranchi BA LLB

    864

    1,667

    DSNLU Visakhapatnam

    957

    1,682

    DBRANLU Sonepat

    626

    1,930

    NLUs available in CLAT 2026 Rank

    NLU Name

    Opening Rank

    Closing Rank

    NLU Jodhpur

    542

    986

    GNLU Gandhinagar

    819

    1,118

    NLIU Bhopal (BA LLB)

    787

    1,377

    NUSRL Ranchi BA LLB

    1,501

    2,551

    NUSRL Ranchi BBA LLB

    2,052

    2,714

    NLSIU Bengaluru

    209

    1,541

    NALSAR Hyderabad

    333

    1,219

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    CLAT 2026 NLU Preference List for Ranks 1000-2000

    Candidates with rank 1000 to 2000 can follow this preference list:

    1. NLSIU Bengaluru

    2. NALSAR Hyderabad

    3. WBNUJS Kolkata( BA LLB)

    4. NLU Jodhpur

    5. GNLU Gandhinagar

    6. NLIU Bhopal (BA LLB)

    7. MNLU Mumbai

    8. WBNUJS Kolkata (BSc.LLB Hons)

    9. RMLNLU Lucknow

    10. HNLU Raipur

    11. NLIU Bhopal (BSc LLB)

    12. NLU Odisha BA LLB

    13. NLU Odisha BBA LLB

    14. RGNUL Patiala

    15. NUALS Kochi

    16. CNLU Patna (BA LLB)

    17. GNLU Silvassa Campus

    18. MNLU Nagpur - BA LLB

    19. CNLU Patna (BBA LLB)

    20. MNLU Nagpur - BBA LLB

    21. NUSRL Ranchi BA LLB

    22. DSNLU Visakhapatnam

    23. NUSRL Ranchi BBA LLB

    24. TNNLU Tiruchirappalli BA LLB

    25. DBRANLU Sonepat

    26. TNNLU Tiruchirappalli BCom LLB

    27. MNLU Aurangabad- BA LLB

    28. NLUJA Assam

    29. MPDNLU Jabalpur

    30. MNLU Aurangabad - BBA LLB

    31. RPNLU Prayagraj

    32. HPNLU Shimla - BA LLB

    33. HPNLU Shimla - BBA LLB

    34. IIULER Goa BA LLB

    35. IIULER Goa BBA LLB

    36. NLUT Agartala

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