The CLAT 2025 exam has been concluded and students are in a mixed state of emotions, with some really excited about their score while some students are nervous about their chances of admission to National Law Universities. A CLAT score of above 85 marks can be termed as a good score in the exam. With this score candidates can get admission to some of the top NLUs. In this article we will do a detailed analysis of top NLUs that offer admissions to CLAT 2025 students above 85 marks. The analysis has been carried out using the CLAT previous year cutoff data and other useful information.
A rough analysis of the CLAT 2025 marks vs rank data implies that candidates will get a rank between 1000-2000 in a CLAT score of 95-90. This rank can be termed as a really good rank given that around 60,000 students appear for the exam every year. Students in this rank will get admission to top NLUs like NLIU Bhopal, WBNUJS Kolkata, NUALS Kochi, MNLU Mumbai etc. A detailed mark wise analysis of ranks has been given in the table below:
Marks | Ranks |
85 | 2250-2600 |
86 | 1900-2250 |
87 | 1650-1900 |
88 | 1400-1650 |
89 | 1100-1400 |
90 | 900-1100 |
The tables given below provide the best NLUs for CLAT scores of 85 to 90 for different categories. Along with the NLU list, the opening and closing CLAT cut-off ranks are also given.
NLU | General | |
Opening rank | Closing rank | |
NLIU Bhopal (BSc LLB) | 187 | 1047 |
WBNUJS Kolkata (BSc.LLB Hons) | 289 | 1010 |
GNLU Silvassa Campus | 593 | 1060 |
RGNUL Patiala | 502 | 1250 |
CNLU Patna (BA LLB) | 790 | 1358 |
CNLU Patna (BBA LLB) | 1051 | 1552 |
NUALS Kochi | 231 | 1136 |
NLU Odisha | 591 | 1205 |
NUSRL Ranchi | 637 | 1594 |
NLUJA Assam | 1344 | 1704 |
DSNLU Visakhapatnam | 656 | 1390 |
MNLU Mumbai | 99 | 590 |
MNLU Nagpur - BA LLB | 491 | 1587 |
MNLU Nagpur - BBA LLB | 611 | 1685 |
*state category reservation
NLU | OBC | |
Opening rank | Closing rank | |
NLSIU Bengaluru | 151 | 971 |
NALSAR Hyderabad | 189 | 1116 |
NLIU Bhopal (BA LLB) | 1191 | 1315 |
NLIU Bhopal (BSc LLB) | 1112 | 1959 |
WBNUJS Kolkata( BA LLB) | 2610* | 23192* |
WBNUJS Kolkata (BSc.LLB Hons) | 7619* | 26986* |
NLU Jodhpur | 1079 | 1424 |
GNLU Gandhinagar | 1284 | 1858 |
RMLNLU Lucknow | 1170* | 3613* |
MNLU Mumbai | 2123* | 6468* |
*state category reservation
NLU | EWS | |
Opening rank | Closing rank | |
NLSIU Bengaluru | 122 | 523 |
NALSAR Hyderabad | 175 | 564 |
NLIU Bhopal (BA LLB) | 621 | 1376 |
NLIU Bhopal (BSc LLB) | 1248 | 1777 |
GNLU Gandhinagar | 603 | 1248 |
GNLU Silvassa Campus | 1113 | 1935 |
RMLNLU Lucknow | 1022* | 2326* |
CNLU Patna (BA LLB) | 1378* | 2122* |
CNLU Patna (BBA LLB) | 1571* | 2703* |
NUSRL Ranchi | 1468 | 2255 |
DSNLU Visakhapatnam | 1242 | 2195 |
MNLU Mumbai | 811* | 3932* |
*state category reservation
NLU | SC | |
Opening rank | Closing rank | |
NLSIU Bengaluru | 372 | 3007 |
NALSAR Hyderabad | 1604 | 3574 |
NLIU Bhopal (BA LLB) | 4573 | 5178 |
NLIU Bhopal (BSc LLB) | 6497 | 7622 |
WBNUJS Kolkata( BA LLB) | 2056 | 4503 |
WBNUJS Kolkata (BSc.LLB Hons) | 4663 | 8958 |
NLU Jodhpur | 3574 | 5178 |
HNLU Raipur | 3408 | 6765 |
GNLU Gandhinagar | 4584 | 6175 |
RMLNLU Lucknow | 5397* | 10340* |
RGNUL Patiala | 3234 | 10253 |
MNLU Mumbai | 4506* | 11392* |
*state category reservation
NLU | ST | |
Opening rank | Closing rank | |
NLSIU Bengaluru | 239 | 7487 |
NALSAR Hyderabad | 263 | 6083 |
NLIU Bhopal (BA LLB) | 8403 | 11527 |
NLIU Bhopal (BSc LLB) | 13905 | 15219 |
WBNUJS Kolkata( BA LLB) | 5215 | 8860 |
WBNUJS Kolkata (BSc.LLB Hons) | 10961 | 11917 |
NLU Jodhpur | 6666 | 8960 |
HNLU Raipur | 9218 | 12035 |
GNLU Gandhinagar | 7712 | 11580 |
RMLNLU Lucknow | 20456* | 34174* |
RGNUL Patiala | 9562 | 16875 |
MNLU Mumbai | 24593* | 34264* |
*state category reservation
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
A score of more than 85 marks can be termed as a good score as students will get admission to some of the top NLUs in these marks.
A score of above 90 marks can be termed as a really good score in CLAT 2025.
Candidates with a score of 85 to 90 are expected to get ranks between 1000 to 2200.
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