CLAT NLUs Vacant Seats 2026: Admission to Vacant Seats After Counselling
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CLAT NLUs Vacant Seats 2026: Admission to Vacant Seats After Counselling

Sansar Singh ChhikaraUpdated on 28 Aug 2025, 10:17 AM IST

CLAT NLUs Vacant Seats 2026: The National Law Universities conduct admissions through the CLAT entrance exam. The NLUs are undoubtedly among the most prestigious law institutions in India. The Common Law Admission Test is conducted once every year for admission to 24 NLUs in 5-year LLB and LLM courses. However, once the CLAT counselling process is over, the NLUs conduct their individual admission process for the CLAT 2026 NLU vacant seats left. These vacant seats in NLUs 2026 are filled through a separate admission process. In this article, we will list out the vacant seats left in top NLUs, the admission process and more.

CLAT NLUs Vacant Seats 2026: Admission to Vacant Seats After Counselling
CLAT NLUs Vacant Seats 2026

The CLAT 2026 exam will be conducted on December 7, 2025. The NLU vacant seats 2026 PDF will be updated in the below table according to college wise.

CLAT NLUs Vacant Seats 2026


NLU-wise Vacant Seat 2026 Details

The details regarding vacant seats for each NLU will be given below upon official announcement:

NALSAR Hyderabad Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

NRI
-

WBNUJS Kolkata Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

AI SC

-

AI ST

-

NRI
-

Total

-

HNLU Raipur Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

NRI

-

AI General PwD/SAP

-

Total

-

GNLU Gandhinagar Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

General Woman

-

NRI
-

GNLU Silvassa Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

General (W)

-

General

-

General (W)-GC-DDN Domicile

-

General (EWS)

-

SC (W)

-

SC (W)- SC-DDN

-

ST (W)

-

OBC (W)

-

NRI-

Total

-

RMNLU Lucknow Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

OBC UP

-

NRI

-

Total-

RGNUL Punjab Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant SeatsMinimum rank required

AI General

-

1500

SC

-

-

ST

-

-

PWD

-

-

NRI
--

NLU Odisha Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI ST-AP

-

AI SC-AP

-

OD General (SAP)

-

NRI
-

Total

-

NLU Odisha Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

AI General (SAP)

-

OD General

-

OD General SAP

-

NRI
-

Total

-

NUSLR Ranchi Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

AI EWS

-

AI OBC

-

AI SC

-

AI ST

-

Jharkhand General

-

Jharkhand BC

-

Jharkhand ST

-

J&K residence

-

NRI-

Total

-

NLU Assam Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

AI SC

-

NRI
-

Total

-

DSNLU Vishakhapatnam Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

AI OBC

-

AI SC

-

AP State BC-A

-

AP State BC-B

-

AP State SC

-

AP State General

-

AP State EWS

-

AI EWS

-

NRI-

Total

-

TNNLU Tiruchirappalli Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

AI SC

-

AI OBC

-

GC-TN

-

SCO-TN

-

NRI-

Total

-

MNLU Mumbai Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

AI General

-

DTA MH

-

NRI
-

Total

-

MNLU Aurangabad Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

SC

-

ST

-

De-notified Tribe

-

Nomadic Tribes (C)

-

EWS

-

General

-

NRI-

Total

-

MNLU Aurangabad Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

SC

-

ST

-

OBC

-

De-notified Tribe

-

Nomadic Tribes (C)

-

EWS

-

General

-

NRI
-

Total

-

HPNLU Shimla Vacant Seats 2026

Category

Vacant Seats

General

-

SC

-

NRI-

Total

-

HPNLU Shimla Vacant Seats 2026

CategoryVacant Seats

General

-

SC

-

ST

-

NRI-

Total

-

DNLU Jabalpur Vacant Seats 2026

CategoryVacant Seats

General

-

SC

-

ST

-

OBC

-

EWS

-

J&K

-

NRI-

Total

-

NLU Sonipat Vacant Seats 2026

CategoryVacant Seats

General- AI

-

GC- HR

-

WLREGC- HR

-

EWS- AI

-

EWS- HR

-

OBC- AI

-

BC

B- HR

-

SC- AI

-

SC- HR

-

NRI-

Total

-

How to apply for vacant seats in NLU 2026?

All the national law universities conduct their separate admission process. To get admission to the vacant seats in NLUs 2026, candidates will be required to visit the websites of these NLUs and apply for admission. Applicants will be required to fill in a Google form along with the required documents, like CLAT 2026 result, academic document copies, etc. The general admission process for vacant seats in NLUs has been given below:

  • Visit the official website of the NLU you are interested in taking admission.

  • Go to the admissions section on the website.

  • Click on the Google Forms link for “admission to vacant seats for admission”.

  • Fill in all the details asked in the form carefully like CLAT rank, category, course preference etc.

  • Attach all the required documents.

  • Make the required fee payment and click on the submit button.

  • Check the merit list regularly on the official website of the NLU for your admission status.

You may also check: CLAT College Predictor

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: How to apply for vacant seats in NLUs?
A:

Candidates will have to visit the official website of the respective NLU they want to apply and fill out the application form in the admissions page.

Q: How many seats are available in CLAT?
A:

As per the CLAT 2026 seat matrix, there are 3696 CLAT UG seats and 1541 CLAT PG seats including supernumerary and NRI/ Foreign national seats.

Q: How to apply for vacant seats in NLUs?
A:

Candidates will have to visit the official website of the respective NLU they want to apply and fill out the application form in the admissions page.

Q: How many seats are available in CLAT?
A:

As per the CLAT 2026 seat matrix, there are 3696 CLAT UG seats and 1541 CLAT PG seats including supernumerary and NRI/ Foreign national seats.

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Questions related to CLAT

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Have a question related to CLAT ?

Hello

If you want to know other private/government colleges which accept the CLAT Score rather than NLUs, then many private colleges accept the CLAT score for the law course, and a few government colleges accept the CLAT exam's score.

  • Private Colleges that accept the CLAT score-
  1. Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
  2. University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
  3. Alliance University, Bengaluru
  4. Amity University, Noida
  5. IIM Rohtak
  • Government Colleges that accept the CLAT score-
  1. Delhi University, Law Faculty
  2. Mumbai University Law College
  3. Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi

I hope this information helps you.

Thank you

Hello there,

With a rank of 2673, you might not be able to secure a seat in the top-tier NLUs as they usually close within the range of 1000-1200 rank. However, an EWS rank might help you in securing a seat in the mid-tier and newer NLUs. Here is list of NLUs , you are more likely to secure a seat in:

  1. NUSRL, Ranchi
  2. DSNLU, Visakhapatnam
  3. HPNLU, Shimla
  4. DNLU, Jabalpur
  5. DBRANLU, Sonipat

There's also chances in the mentioned below NLUs of you securing a seat in the later rounds:

  1. CNLU, Patna
  2. NLUJA, Assam
  3. MNLU, Nagpur\Aurangabad
  4. RPNLUP, Prayagraj
  5. IIULER, Goa

The key elements to consider are that, you must fill up your preference list carefully. You must keep high rank NLUs on top and then mid tier and then the newer ones. You can use the "FLAOT" option during the rounds of counseling.

I hope the information helps you.

Thankyou.

Hello,

No, with a CLAT rank of 9515, it does not offer any admission to the University School of Law and Legal Studies.

As per the stats provided, USLLS BA LLB (Hons) lists the OBC category entries from 4600 to 5600 ranks.

For further clarifications visit

https://www.careers360.com/colleges/university-school-of-law-and-legal-studies-new-delhi/cut-off

Hope it helps with your query. Good luck.

Hello,

For your mentioned rank, the top elite law universities are constrained to be limited, especially when the chance is fairly divided among reserved category people.

But apart from CLAT rank, NRI admissions have some different processes.

Some NLUs handle counselling with required eligibility and quotas. The counselling registration window is open until December 27, 2025. You can apply to know through them. Because even missing application deadlines will lessen your eligibility.

NRI admissions regarding CLAT can be applied directly with the major required document proofs.

Cutoffs to 10,000 are being allotted after regular rounds for counselling, but the course fee for this will be 10-20 lakhs per annum only if the candidate is either of these: NRI, OCI, or PIO.

For further clarifications check the official portal

Consortium of  (https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2026/) NLUs.

Hope it helps with your query. Good luck.

Hello,

Here is your CLAT 2026 Rank-Wise College List - Available NLUs in your rank range. I am providing you the link. Kindly open and check it out.

https://law.careers360.com/articles/clat-2026-rank-wise-college-list

I hope it will help you. For any further query please let me know.

Thank you.