NIRF 2023: Average Placements At Law Colleges In South India

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a method of ranking adopted by the Ministry of Education to grade institutes providing higher education. This year NIRF 2023 has ranked top 30 Law colleges across India.

For ease of analysis Careers360 divided the colleges as per their location in different zones of the country. In this article, we have only analysed the colleges that fall in the southern zone of the country. The states of Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.

However, none of the top 30 law colleges of south India are from Goa and Kerala.

For the benefit of our readers we have considered law colleges offering only the undergraduate courses of five-year LLB. All the top law colleges of South India as per NIRF 2023 provide a five-year undergraduate law programme.

In this article we analysed the percentage of graduate students, the placement report, the median salary received by the placid students, and the percentage of students who went for higher education for a duration of three years.

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The analysis shows the effort of colleges to promote a higher percentage of students graduating over three years. Though the placement percentage of the law colleges in South India is pretty average in 2021-22 the median salary has hardly increased in this period. The average placement and the stagnant median salary have pushed the percentage of students opting for higher education.

The table below shows six law colleges in South India with respective NIRF rankings of 2023.

NIRF 2023: Law Colleges In South India

High Graduation Rate

All the law colleges of South India have a high percentage of students graduating in the minimum stipulated time of five years. All the colleges of South India witnessed 95 per cent of minimum students from the entire batch graduating in 2021-22. Here the total intake of students is the sum of students directly admitted and the students admitted through the entry during that particular year.

The data of the last three years show that the law colleges have not only maintained their academic input but also improved it.

The data below includes the percentage of students graduating in the minimum graduation duration of five years for three years.

Percentage Of Students Graduating In Five Years

Average Placements

National Law School of India University and Nalsar University of Law being one of the top-ranked universities show high placement percentages. Here the placement percentage is calculated on the basis of graduated students who are placed in companies, law firms etc. Shanmugha Arts Science Technology & Research Academy despite being in the 15th rank shows excellent placement performance.

However, Alliance University has a poor placement percentage. More than 96 per cent of the batch admitted in 2017-18 graduated in 2021-22. But, the college could place a mere 20 per cent of the batch graduated. This shows a high rate of competent law graduates without a job in 2021-22.

We can possibly conclude from this analysis that the college cannot invite enough competent companies to the college for the placement of the students. There could also be a chance that students were not well versed in legal knowledge to get a job. However, we cannot rule out the fact that some students willingly would not opt for a job. They might be interested in going for a higher education or planning to prepare for some competitive exam.

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The table below shows the percentage of students who got placed over three years.

Percentage Of Students Placed

Slow Rise In Median Salary

There was hardly any rise in the median salary of the six law colleges in the period of three years. The Nalsar University of Law is on the second rank and has shown little change in the median salary in three years.

Colleges like Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Christ University

Shanmugha Arts Science Technology & Research Academy and Alliance University show below-average performance when it comes to the median salary offered to the placed students. Alliance University even could not reach its median salary mark of 5 lakh which it provided in 2020-21 in 2021-22.

Decent salary packages in limited law schools are a threat to financial assurance after a law degree. Students in this case are forced to go for higher education to get a financially secure future. The table below shows the median salary offered to placed students of law schools in South India over a period of three years.

Median Salary (In Lakhs)

Students Opting For Higher Education

Colleges with good placement percentages have lower percentage of students going for higher studies and vice versa. Alliance University with the lowest median salary in 2021-22 has the highest percentage of students going for higher studies taking into consideration all six colleges. This shows most students go for higher education for better salary packages.

Percentage Of Students Opting For Higher Studies

Law schools of South India guarantee a good percentage of students graduating over a minimum stipulated time period. But, it's important for them to work on their numbers. Poor placements show a higher unemployment percentage in youth with potential which is not good for the economy of the country.