Top 5 NLUs with Low CLAT 2025 Cut-Offs: Check Last Year Trends

Top 5 NLUs with Low CLAT 2025 Cut-Offs: Check Last Year Trends

Sumeet SudarshanUpdated on 19 Feb 2025, 09:14 AM IST

The CLAT 2025 cut-off is an important threshold that candidates need to clear to obtain NLU admission. Premier NLUs such as NLSIU Bengaluru and NALSAR Hyderabad have very high CLAT cut-offs which make it difficult for candidates to get into. However, in case of a low score in CLAT 2025, candidates can look at the NLUs with low CLAT cut-offs. In this article, let’s look at the top 5 NLUs with low CLAT 2025 cut-offs based on past trends where candidates can secure NLU admission despite having a low score in the CLAT results.

Top 5 NLUs with Low CLAT 2025 Cut-Offs: Check Last Year Trends
Top 5 NLUs with Low CLAT 2025 Cut-Offs

Top 5 NLUs With Low CLAT 2025 Cut-Off

The top 5 NLUs with low CLAT 2025 cut-offs have been chosen from the NIRF law rankings 2024. The universities have been shortlisted based on the NLU cut-off trends for the general category observed last year. The CLAT general cut-off is an accurate indicator of whether the cut-off is high or low. For other categories, the CLAT cut-off shows significant variations across NLUs due to domicile reservation.

Top 5 NLUs with Low Cut-Off

CLAT Cut-Off Ranks for Top 5 NLUs with Low Cut-Off (Last Year Trends)

The table below provides the CLAT cut-off trends observed last year for the top 5 NLUs with low cut-offs.

Cut-off Trends for Top 5 NLUs with Low Cut-Off


NLU

General

EWS

OBC

SC

ST

Opening rank

Closing rank

Opening rank

Closing rank

Opening rank

Closing rank

Opening rank

Closing rank

Opening rank

Closing rank

NLUJA Assam

1344

1704

-

-

7386*

37438*

8824*

17168*

17149*

46899*

MNLU Nagpur - BA LLB

491

1587

3974*

6285*

3089*

17245*

11235*

25115*

29470*

50326*

MNLU Nagpur - BBA LLB

611

1685

6100*

16730*

4790*

14814*

12722*

29474*

42740*

46480*

NUSRL Ranchi

637

1594

1468

2255

1837

3005

5972

11124

16161

19635

DSNLU Visakhapatnam

656

1390

1242

2195

2068

2940

8057

10568

11917

18342

CNLU Patna (BA LLB)

790

1358

1378*

2122*

2139*

2776*

4522*

14864*

23802*

-

CNLU Patna (BBA LLB)

1051

1552

1571*

2703*

2560*

4147*

13550*

16714*

1339*

-

*state category reservation

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