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    NIRF 2025 Law Rankings Out: NLSIU Tops Again, GNLU Breaks into Top 5

    NIRF 2025 Law Rankings Out: NLSIU Tops Again, GNLU Breaks into Top 5

    Shubham BhakuniUpdated on 04 Sep 2025, 12:07 PM IST

    National Law School of India University (NLSI) has retained the top position in the NIRF Law rankings 2025 released today by the Ministry of Education (MoE). The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) evaluates colleges and universities across various parameters and publishes rankings for categories such as Engineering, Law, Medicine, Management, Pharmacy, and others. In the Law discipline, all the top five positions have been secured by the national law universities (NLUs).

    NIRF 2025 Law Rankings Out: NLSIU Tops Again, GNLU Breaks into Top 5
    NIRF 2025 Law Rankings Out: NLSIU Retains Top Spot, Check India’s Top 5 Law Schools

    NLU Delhi, NALSAR Hyderabad and WBNUJS Kolkata have also retained the second, third and fourth positions in the India rankings 2025. GNLU Gandhinagar has improved in the ranking from 8th last year to 5th this year.

    NIRF Law rankings: Top Five Law Schools

    The NIRF law rankings 2025 measure the law schools in five key parameters as mentioned below.

    1. Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR)

    It reflects the student strength, faculty-student ratio, financial resources and their utilisation and various other aspects of learning.

    1. Research and Professional Practice (RP)

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    These parameters look at the publications submitted by the institutions and their quality. Along with this, IPR, patents, projects, and citations in SDFs are taken into consideration.

    1. Graduation Outcomes (GO)

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    This is one of the most crucial parameters measured in terms of university examination, the number of student graduates, along with placements.

    1. Outreach and Inclusivity (OI)

    The OI looks at student diversity in the institutions. The diversity in terms of region, gender, and economic status is a key sub-parameter of the ranking framework. The facilities provided to Physically Challenged Students (PCS) are also counted under this.

    1. Peer Perception

    The peer perception looks is measured through surveys. The perception of academic peers and employers is taken into consideration while assigning scores under the perception parameter.

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