The Ministry of Education has published the National Institutional Research Framework (NIRF) 2025 law rankings on September 4, 2025. National Law University, Delhi has been consistently ranked among the top law schools in India in the NIRF rankings. Since the last few years, NLU Delhi has been consistently ranked number 2 in the NIRF Law rankings. The NLU Delhi NIRF ranking 2025 is rank 2. Last year too, NLU Delhi’s NIRF ranking was 2. The only NLU to beat NLU Delhi over the years is NLSIU Bengaluru, which has been consistently ranked 1. In this article we will discuss the NIRF rankings 2025 for NLU Delhi, ranking of other top colleges, NLU Delhi NIRF rankings over the years and a lot more.
College Name | NIRF Ranking 2025 |
NLU Delhi | 2 |
The National Institutional Research Framework ranks law colleges after scoring them on five parameters. The five parameters based on which NIRF 2025 ranking for NLU Delhi was prepared have been mentioned below:
Teaching, Learning, and Resources (TLR) - 40%
Research and Professional Practice (RP) - 15%
Graduation Outcomes (GO) - 25%
Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) - 10%
Perception (PR) - 10%
Among the five parameters, Teaching, Learnin and Resources (TLR) takes the most weightage with 40%. The below-given table shows the NIRF 2025 NLU Delhi scores on all five parameters and overall score.
Parameter | Score |
Teaching, Learning, and Resources (TLR) | To be Updated |
Research and Professional Practice (RP) | To be Updated |
Graduation Outcomes (GO) | To be Updated |
Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) | To be Updated |
Perception (PR) | To be Updated |
Overall | To be Updated |
NLU Delhi has been consistently ranked 2 in the last many years in the NIRF rankings. In the year 2024 as well, NLU Delhi was ranked 2. The table below shows the NIRF rankings of NLU Delhi over the past few years.
Year | NLU Delhi’s Rank |
2024 | 2 |
2023 | 2 |
2022 | 2 |
2021 | 2 |
2020 | 2 |
2019 | 2 |
2018 | 2 |
Apart from NLU Delhi, the NIRF 2025 Law rankings for all colleges have been published. The NIRF law rankings 2025 have been mentioned in the table below:
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 |
Gujarat National Law University | Gandhinagar | Gujarat | 5 | Government |
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