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    NIRF 2025 Law Report: NLU Delhi Placements Up 29%, Salaries, and Rising Expenditure Revealed
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    NIRF 2025 Law Report: NLU Delhi Placements Up 29%, Salaries, and Rising Expenditure Revealed

    Shubham BhakuniUpdated on 26 Aug 2025, 11:32 AM IST

    The Ministry of Education is expected to release the final report of the much-anticipated National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025. The report is published for various disciplines of higher education, including Law, Engineering, Medical and MBA colleges. These reports are usually published in July-August every year. In the legal education segment, NIRF ranked 40 law schools last year, with NLSIU Bengaluru, NLU Delhi and NALSAR Hyderabad holding the top three positions. While the rankings for this year will be published soon, the relevant data have been submitted by the law schools.

    NIRF 2025 Law Report: NLU Delhi Placements Up 29%, Salaries, and Rising Expenditure Revealed
    NIRF 2025 Law Report: NLU Delhi Placements Up 29%, Salaries, and Rising Expenditure Revealed

    The data submitted by National Law University, Delhi, ranked 2nd best law college last year, shows a 28.75% jump in placements compared to the previous graduating batch. The median salary of LLB graduates increased from Rs. 14 LPA to Rs. 18 LPA. Out of 83 students admitted in 2019-20, 75 graduated in 2023-24, with 65 getting placed and 10 pursuing higher studies, the report shows. The NLU placement percentage stood at 94.20%. It is largely consistent with 94.52% achieved in the previous graduating batch in 2022-23, and significantly higher than 70% in 2021-22.

    NLU Delhi 5-Year LLB Placements in Last Three years

    Academic Year (Graduating Batch)

    Students Graduating in Minimum Time (A)

    Students Placed (B)

    Median Salary

    Students for Higher Studies (C)

    Placement% = (B* 100)/(A-C)

    2021-22

    85

    59

    Rs 19,00,000

    9

    70%

    2022-23

    83

    69

    Rs. 14,00,000

    10

    94.52%

    2023-24

    79

    65

    Rs. 18,00,000

    10

    94.20%

    Source: Data submitted by NLU Delhi for NIRF

    NLU Delhi LLM Placements in Last Three Years

    Academic Year (Graduating Batch)

    Students Graduating in Minimum Time

    Students Placed

    Median Salary

    Students for Higher Studies

    2021-22

    70

    43

    Rs. 10,00,000

    8

    2022-23

    75

    50

    Rs. 12,00,000

    8

    2023-24

    72

    48

    Rs. 10,68,000

    9

    Faculty Outlook at NLU Delhi

    The university has a total intake of 661. With 174 faculty members, including professors, associate professors, assistant professors and ad hoc, visiting, contractual and research faculty, it maintains a healthy 1:4 student-faculty ratio. However, approximately 58% contractual/ad-hoc/research/visiting faculty members show that the university relied heavily on non-permanent faculty members, many of whom left the institution by 2024.

    Financial resources — Operational expenditure rises in three years

    In three years (2021-22 to 2023-24), the salary expenditure of the NLU D rose by 35%, from 15.05 cr to 20.26 cr. In the maintenance of academic infrastructure, including the hostel, the university spent 24.98 cr, 30% higher than the 19.26 cr spent in 2021-22. The expenditure on seminars/conferences/workshops increased by 5x, from 0.17 cr to 0.80 cr, during the same period.

    NLU Delhi operational expenditure

    Academic Year

    Salaries (Teaching & Non-Teaching Staff)

    Maintenance of Academic Infrastructure / Consumables / Running Expenditure

    Seminars / Conferences / Workshops

    2023-24

    Rs. 20,26,99,403 (20.27 Cr)

    Rs. 24,97,88,214 (24.98 Cr)

    Rs. 79,80,835 (0.80 Cr)

    2022-23

    Rs. 18,06,03,873 (18.06 Cr)

    Rs. 23,00,62,053 (23.01 Cr)

    Rs. 28,20,492 (0.28 Cr)

    2021-22

    Rs. 15,05,94,128 (15.06 Cr)

    Rs. 19,25,71,975 (19.26 Cr)

    Rs. 16,54,341 (0.17 Cr)

    NLU Delhi is currently accepting applications for 5-year LLB and LLM courses for the academic year 2026-27. It will hold an all-India Law Entrance Test (AILET) on December 14.

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