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    NLUs NIRF Rankings 2025: Rank-wise Best NLUs in India

    NLUs NIRF Rankings 2025: Rank-wise Best NLUs in India

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    Sukriti SahooUpdated on 05 Sep 2025, 10:39 AM IST

    The Ministry of Education, Govt. of India has released the NIRF Law Ranking 2025 on September 4, 2025. In all, there are 26 National Law Universities out of which 13 NLUs find a place in the NIRF law rankings 2025. NLSIU Bengaluru is at the top spot in the rank-wise list of NLUs. It is followed by NLU Delhi and NALSAR Hyderabad, which complete the top 3 NLUs in NIRF law rankings. Read on to get the full rank-wise best NLUs in India, including the NIRF scores and determining factors.

    NLUs NIRF Rankings 2025: Rank-wise Best NLUs in India
    NLUs NIRF Rankings 2025: Rank-wise Best NLUs in India

    The rank-wise list of NLUs in the NIRF rankings is prepared after considering several factors such as teaching and learning resources, learning outcomes, outreach programmes, quality of research, and perception of the institute. The admissions at NLUs are done based on scores in the Common Law Admission Test and the All India Law Entrance Test (NLU Delhi). The Consortium of NLUs will conduct CLAT 2026 on December 7, 2025. NLU Delhi will conduct AILET 2026 on December 14, 2025. A few NLUs also conduct their law entrance exams for admission to their law programmes.

    NIRF Ranking Factors for Rank-Wise List of NLUs in India

    Given below is the list of factors to be considered to prepare the rank-wise list of NLUs.

    NIRF Ranking Factors

    Factor

    Details

    Weightage

    Teaching, Learning, and Resources

    Includes student strength, student-faculty ratio, combined metric for faculty, and financial resources

    40%

    Research and Professional Practices

    Includes combined metrics for publications quality of publications, and footprint of projects and professional practices.

    15%

    Graduation outcomes

    Includes placement and higher studies details, metrics for college examinations, median salary offered to students, and students graduating with PhD

    25%

    Outreach and Inclusivity

    Includes outreach and inclusivity activities undertaken by the institute

    10%

    Perception

    Perception of the law college in the minds of employees and academic peers

    10%

    Rank Wise NLU List in NIRF 2025

    The table given below provides the list rank-wise list of NLUs as per their score in the NIRF law rankings. Among the top 40 law schools ranked in the NIRF rankings, 13 are NLUs.

    NLU Rank List 2025

    Sl. no

    Name

    City

    State

    Score

    Rank

    1

    National Law School of India University, Bengaluru

    Bengaluru

    Karnataka

    82.97

    1

    2

    National Law University, New Delhi

    New Delhi

    Delhi

    80.00

    2

    3

    NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

    Hyderabad

    Telangana

    79.50

    3

    4

    The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata

    Kolkata

    West Bengal

    79.39

    4

    5

    Gujarat National Law University

    Gandhinagar

    Gujarat

    76.23

    5

    6

    National Law University, Cuttack

    Cuttack

    Odisha

    63.66

    15

    7

    Chanakya National Law University, Patna

    Patna

    Bihar

    62.40

    17

    8

    Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow

    Lucknow

    Uttar Pradesh

    60.12

    21

    9

    National Law Institute University, Bhopal

    Bhopal

    Madhya Pradesh

    57.64

    27

    10

    Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur

    Nagpur

    Maharashtra

    56.54

    28

    11

    National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi

    Ranchi

    Jharkhand

    55.81

    30

    12

    Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla

    Shimla

    Himachal Pradesh

    53.49

    34

    13

    National Law University and Judicial Academy, Kamrup

    Kamrup

    Assam

    53.39

    35

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    NLU Admission Process 2026

    The NLU admissions require the candidates to appear for the respective law entrance exam. The NLUs which are part of the CLAT admission process accept the CLAT 2026 scores. Candidates have to appear for the centralised CLAT counselling process to obtain seat allotment. The admissions into NLU Delhi and NLU Meghalaya are conducted at the institute level, and candidates have to appear for the counselling process of the university after appearing for their respective law entrance exams.

    The NLUs which offer a 3-year LLB programme also conduct their own entrance exams, such as NLSAT for NLSIU Bengaluru, NLUO 3-year LLB entrance exam for NLU Odisha and CNLU 3-year LLB entrance exam for CNLU Patna.

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