Jindal Global Law School Admissions 2026
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The Consortium of National Law Universities will release the HPNLU Shimla 2026 merit list online on its official website - consortiumofnlus.ac.in. The Consortium of NLUs will release the HPNLU Shimla merit list 2026 at the start of each round of CLAT 2026 counselling. In case of vacant seats after the centralised CLAT counselling 2026, the university will also publish the merit list of HPNLU Shimla for institute-level admissions. The HPNLU Shimla merit list 2026 contains details such as the All India rank, admit card number, horizontal reservations, and admission status of the candidate.
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The admissions to HPNLU Shimla and other CLAT colleges will be done through the Common Law Admission Test. The consortium will conduct CLAT 2026 on December 7, 2025. The CLAT 2026 seat intake for HPNLU Shimla is 120 seats for the 5-year LLB programmes and 80 seats for the LLM programme.
Particulars | HPNLU Shimla UG Merit List 2026 | HPNLU Shimla LLM Merit List 2026 |
Round 1 allotment | Fourth week of December 2025 | Fourth week of December 2025 |
Round 2 allotment | Second week of January 2026 | Second week of January 2026 |
Round 3 allotment | Fourth week of January 2026 | Fourth week of January 2026 |
Round 4 allotment | Third week of May 2026 | Third week of May 2026 |
Round 5 allotment | Fourth week of May 2026 | Fourth week of May 2026 |
Candidates can download the HPNLU Shimla 2026 merit list by following the steps mentioned below:
Visit the official website - consortiumofnlus.ac.in
Click on the CLAT 2026
Select the desired round of ‘Provisional Allotment List’ CLAT
Click on the HPNLU Shimla merit list tab.
The detailed HPNLU Shimla merit list pdf will be displayed on the screen
Download and save the HPNLU Shimla 2026 merit list PDF for future reference
The consortium will release the CLAT HPNLU Shimla 2026 merit list tentatively a week after the CLAT 2026 counselling registrations have been closed. The HPNLU Shimla merit iist PDF will be provided below upon official release.
Particulars | Details | |
Round 1 merit list | Will be updated | |
Round 2 merit list | ||
Round 3 merit list | ||
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Round 5 merit list | ||
The CLAT cut-off 2026 for HPNLU Shimla will be available through the CLAT 2026 merit list for each round of counselling. The HPNLU Shimla 2026 cut-off for BA LLB, BBA LLB and LLM will be updated soon.
Year | Course | 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 | ||
2026 | BA LLB | Will be updated | |||||||||
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After completing the CLAT counselling registrations 2026, candidates need to complete other steps in the admission process to secure a seat at HPNLU Shimla or any other NLU. The CLAT seat 2026 is allocated to the candidates based on their merit and preference submitted.
Candidates satisfied with the allotted college can choose the ‘Freeze’ option
If an aspirant is not satisfied with the allotted university, yet wants to continue in the counselling process for further rounds to get a higher preference NLU, they can choose the ‘Float’ option. If the candidate, gets allotted a higher preference NLU seat, then they can move to that NLU.
Before choosing the Freeze or Float option, candidates must pay the confirmation fee of Rs 20,000 and the remaining university fee to the concerned university.
If in case a candidate wants to exit the counselling process they can choose the ‘Exit’ option.
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Candidates must have the following documents ready after paying the confirmation fee for the admission counselling process:
Class 10 statement of marks
CLAT 2026 Admit Card
Class 12 statement of marks
Character Certificate/Conduct Certificate
Transfer/Migration Certificate
Caste Certificate (if applicable)
PwD/SAP Certificate (if applicable)
LLB or equivalent degree statement of marks (for PG programme)
Candidates can download the HPNLU Shimla merit list for the previous year from the table given below:
Year | UG | LLM |
| 2025 | HPNLU Shimla BA LLB Merit List 2025 | HPNLU Shimla LLM Merit List 2025 |
HPNLU Shimla BA LLB Merit List 2025 | ||
2024 | ||
| HPNLU Shimla BBA LLB Merit List 2024 |
Given below is the previous year's HPNLU Shimla cut-off list for BA LLB, BBA LLB and LLM programmes. Candidates can go through the data to figure out the CLAT cut-off 2026 trends for HPNLU Shimla:
Year | Course | 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 | ||
| 2025 | BA LLB | 949 | 2555 | - | - | - | - | 8641 | 11597 | 13499 | 18083 |
| BBA LLB | 1298 | 2634 | - | - | - | - | 9542 | 13886 | 15632 | 19910 | |
2024 | BA LLB | 885 | 2102 | - | - | - | - | 9061 | 12158 | 13213 | 20412 |
BBA LLB | 284 | 2150 | - | - | - | - | 9789 | 12740 | 16386 | 23188 | |
2023 | 822 | 2816 | - | - | - | - | 8337 | 11982 | 13021 | 20699 | |
Year | 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 | |
| 2025 | 665 | 2461 | - | - | - | - | 3851 | 5469 | 4551 | 9011 |
2024 | 623 | 2132 | - | - | - | - | 4191 | 6997 | 6614 | 8575 |
2023 | 698 | 2362 | - | - | - | - | 3436 | 5697 | 6023 | 8699 |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
There will be five rounds of CLAT counselling in 2025.
For the BA LLB programme, the HPNLU Shimla 2024 cut-off for the general category is around 2100 marks.
HPNLU Shimla offers 60 seats each for BA LLB and BBA LLB programme and 80 seats for the LLM.
On Question asked by student community
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