NIRF 2025 Law Rankings: Check Expected List of Top 10 Colleges

NIRF 2025 Law Rankings: Check Expected List of Top 10 Colleges

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Sansar Singh ChhikaraUpdated on 03 Sep 2025, 05:12 PM IST

The Ministry of Education (MoE) will publish the National Institute Research Framework (NIRF) rankings for law schools for the year 2025 on September 4, 2025. Like every year, MoE invites colleges to submit data on set parameters. After collecting the data, the NIRF Law rankings are released based on five parameters - Teaching, Learning & Resources, Research and Professional Practice, Graduation Outcomes, Outreach and Inclusivity, and Perception. NLSIU Bengaluru has been topping the NIRF Law rankings since many years now. This year too, NLSIU Bengaluru, NLU Delhi, NALSAR Hyderabad are expected to take the rank 1, 2 and 3 respectively in the NIRF Law rankings 2025. Read the complete article to know more about the NIRF 2025 law rankings, top colleges, scores of colleges and more.

NIRF 2025 Law Rankings: Check Expected List of Top 10 Colleges
NIRF 2025 Law Rankings

NIRF Law Rankings 2025 - Key Parameters

As mentioned above, the NIRF Law rankings 2025 will be published after giving colleges scores on five set parameters. Each of the parameters has different weightages. Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR) carries the maximum weightage in NIRF law rankings. Talking of the NIRF 2025 law rankings, the five parameters with weightage have been mentioned below:

  1. Teaching, Learning, and Resources (TLR) - 40%

  2. Research and Professional Practice (RP) - 15%

  3. Graduation Outcomes (GO) - 25%

  4. Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) - 10%

  5. Perception (PR) - 10%

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NIRF Law Rankings 2025 - Expected List of Top 10 Colleges

Name

City

State

Rank

Type

National Law School of India University

Bengaluru

Karnataka

1

Government

National Law University

New Delhi

Delhi

2

Government

Nalsar University of Law

Hyderabad

Telangana

3

Government

The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences

Kolkata

West Bengal

4

Government

To be Updated

To be Updated

To be Updated

5

To be Updated

Previous Years NIRF Law Rankings

When it comes to top law colleges in India, there aren’t many changes in colleges. Usually the NLUs dominate the NIRF Law rankings. There are some private law colleges like SLS Pune, SASTRA University etc. that have also started to rise through ranks. The table below shows the top law colleges in India over the years.

NIRF Law Rankings 2024

Name

City

State

Score

Rank

Type

National Law School of India University

Bengaluru

Karnataka

83.83

1

Government

National Law University

New Delhi

Delhi

77.48

2

Government

Nalsar University of Law

Hyderabad

Telangana

77.05

3

Government

The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences

Kolkata

West Bengal

76.39

4

Government

Symbiosis Law School

Pune

Maharashtra

74.62

5

Private

Jamia Millia Islamia

New Delhi

Delhi

73.12

6

Government

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Kharagpur

West Bengal

71.47

7

Government

Gujarat National Law University

Gandhinagar

Gujarat

69.56

8

Government

Siksha `O` Anusandhan

Bhubaneswar

Odisha

65.4

9

Private

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University

Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh

64.96

10

Government

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Bhubaneswar

Odisha

63.6

11

Private

Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh

Uttar Pradesh

63.54

12

Government

Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences

Chennai

Tamil Nadu

61.58

13

Private

Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy

Thanjavur

Tamil Nadu

60.65

14

Private

Christ University

Bengaluru

Karnataka

59.39

15

Private

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College of Law

Visakhapatnam

Andhra Pradesh

58.75

16

Government

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

New Delhi

Delhi

58.68

17

Government

Alliance University

Bengaluru

Karnataka

56.72

18

Private

Lovely Professional University

Phagwara

Punjab

56.71

19

Private

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University

Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh

55.92

20

Government

National Law Institute University, Bhopal

Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh

55.64

21

Government

National University of Study and Research in Law

Ranchi

Jharkhand

55.52

22

Government

University of Lucknow

Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh

55.05

23

Government

The Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law

Patiala

Punjab

54.7

24

Government

Banaras Hindu University

Varanasi

Uttar Pradesh

54.54

25

Government

National Law University, Cuttack

Cuttack

Odisha

54.49

26

Government

National Law University and Judicial Academy

Kamrup

Assam

53.39

27

Government

UPES

Dehradun

Uttarakhand

52.92

28

Private

Manipal University, Jaipur

Jaipur

Rajasthan

52.23

29

Private

Army Institute of Law

Mohali

Punjab

52.11

30

Private

Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai

Mumbai

Maharashtra

51.7

31

Government

Chanakya National Law University

Patna

Bihar

51.7

31

Government

Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon

Gurugram, Haryana

Haryana

51.68

33

Private

Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur

Nagpur

Maharashtra

51.43

34

Government

Indian Law Institute

New Delhi

Delhi

50.25

35

Govt

ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad

Hyderabad

Telangana

49.87

36

Private

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management

Visakhapatnam

Andhra Pradesh

48.49

37

Private

National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS)

Kochi

Kerala

47.96

38

Government

Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University

Visakhapatnam

Andhra Pradesh

47.94

39

Government

Amity University

North Twenty Four Parganas

West Bengal

47.94

39

Private

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