Previous years’ coverage of various national magazines’ law school rankings has turned into a bit of a media circus and has not really contributed in any way to improving the quality or transparency of Indian legal education.
The magazines’ law school rankings have been often criticised and little understood, while colleges’ rank often varied widely and seemingly randomly from year to year. Please feel free to read previous stories, drama and hundreds of comments on this topic.
Legally India has therefore taken an editorial decision not to analyse, publicise or give major editorial space to such magazines’ rankings.
But to maintain a public record, we will continue to publish links to the rankings in the Legally Wired section or elsewhere on the site: please find this year’s India Today law school rankings below, for example.
If you would like to have a look at some slightly more objective criteria of judging college quality in very, very broad terms, please have a look at:
- Legally India’s Mooting Premier League,
- examine Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) students’ preferences in selecting national law schools, or
- look at various law schools’ campus recruitment records over the past years.
Ultimately, however, all rankings are subjective and to a great extent artificial. Preferably, do your own research by speaking to current and past students, visit the campus if you can, speak to some professors and recruiters, and come up with your own considered opinion.
India Today law school rankings
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Also, I'm glad that at least one website has decided not to publish these rankings, because the way they're calculated is just absurd. Most people publish them in order to gain more hits anyway. A general discussion on ranking methodology should be encouraged though.
I am happy that India Today has considered the other factors as well and not just recruitment scenarios of NLUs. Be it corporate law or litigation or working with NGO or a politician, a law school should be judged on its ability to produce such talents who could make a difference to the society.
I am happy that India Today has considered the other factors as well and not just recruitment scenarios of NLUs. Be it corporate law or litigation or working with NGO or a politician, a law school should be judged on its ability to produce such talents who could make a difference to the society.[/quote]
India Today has considered no cogent factor whatsoever. It does not come to most of these law schools, has no idea about statistics/infrastructure/achievements and certainly has no valid reason for the rankings, because of which, there are cases pending against it filed by law schools.
They do participate in India TOday Ranking, which in Law Circuit, is now considered to be one of the worst rankings. Only a person of mediocre research level will support this sort of rankings to satisfy himself.
Further, instead of asking NLU for not participating, cannot it be said to the magazines like India Today to have some sort of sense?
And Trust me, NLUs don't bother of India Today Rankings at all. It is just that you talked of right of someone that I thought of clarifying the same.
They do bother, that is why they have filed cases as pointed out by someone. My point is, let IT do whatever they want. You are nobody to ask them to alter their rankings. You don't like it don't refer to the magazines. As long as the Shroffs and Modis are hiring you why bother ? Be happy with your desk jobs and continue thinking yourself to be superior than others.
Anyway coming to the point, what is the problem in filing a case, even if SOME NLUs are bothering [SINGLE NLUs does not represent each and every NLU].
And even if they are doing, they are doing it correctly. And my dear lawyer, tell me one thing, why should they let anyone do anything? If they have taken a good step to improve rankings, what is wrong with that? The same statement can be applicable to you. Let them file the case, let them object, who are you tell them? You are appearing like a lawyer who is just happy with where he is.
I wonder how a lawyer, that too of Delhi, would get time to surf Legally India every now and then, unless the same lawyer is jobless enough.
"Be happy with your desk jobs and continue thinking yourself to be superior than others." - Didn't get the job? Frustrated enough over NLUs? Happens.
Like I said the magazine has a right to rank colleges according to its criteria. If the college is upset with that then it may choose not to participate in the ranking. Simple.
"If they have taken a good step to improve rankings, what is wrong with that?" - Let us wait for the court verdict and see whose favour the order goes.
"I wonder how a lawyer, that too of Delhi, would get time to surf Legally India every now and then, unless the same lawyer is jobless enough. " -
Vacation going on in courts my boy. I am having free time now.
"Didn't get the job? Frustrated enough over NLUs? Happens."
Well I have never applied for them since I am an environmental lawyer and primarily into litigation.
Like I said the magazine has a right to rank colleges according to its criteria. If the college is upset with that then it may choose not to participate in the ranking. Simple.
"If they have taken a good step to improve rankings, what is wrong with that?" - Let us wait for the court verdict and see whose favour the order goes.
"I wonder how a lawyer, that too of Delhi, would get time to surf Legally India every now and then, unless the same lawyer is jobless enough. " -
Vacation going on in courts my boy. I am having free time now.
"Didn't get the job? Frustrated enough over NLUs? Happens."
Well I have never applied for them since I am an environmental lawyer and primarily into litigation.[/quote]
Actually, while every magazine does have the 'right' to rank according to its own criteria, it still has to divulge those criteria, which India Today has not done for the most part. On the few occasions they did, it was found that they did not have enough information about all the law schools whom they rank. And the law schools don't participate. They don't need to, since IT simply goes ahead and publishes the ranking w/o getting in touch with the law schools first, even to seek information.
College don't anyway participate, they kick India Today out of their campus (Example - NLUJ, NUJS). Do some research on that. Even then if India Today is publishing, whose fault? College or the magazine itself. Think logically, why would a university participate in the ranking of a magazine against which it has filed a case (NUJS), and kicked out (NLU Jodhpur and NUJS). But here too, you lack some logic.
"Vacation going on in courts my boy. I am having free time now."
My dear lawyer, a good lawyer would have spent his time on some productive legal work. Trust me. Even in holidays, they dnt get time [PS: I am talking about only "good" lawyers]
"Well I have never applied for them since I am an environmental lawyer and primarily into litigation." - They rejected you by default, I see.
Just coz you or most of your colleagues may have decided (or had no other option but to litigate) to go "into the real world" (as most of you happily say) doesnt by many means reduce my contribution to the "society" or this nation. I pay my taxes and contribute to the process of creation of wealth in this nation. So please, buzz off.
I am going refrain from making any adverse comments on the quality of students etc in the colleges that have made it (and rather surprisingly to the top 5), but please just chill...
Kisi kudi naal bhangra kar jaake pape, yahan par aivi gyaan na baat.
Very true! That college also charges the highest fees and talks about socially sensitive measures and other rot!
Very true! That college also charges the highest fees and talks about socially sensitive measures and other rot![/quote]
Super True!! we also failed to make it to that college on purpose.. after-all law is not all about getting a job at big firms.. We, the mediocres shall rule this world someday, for now it shall just be this forum..
LI isn't ignoring the issue; it is simply not portraying the inane and mindless ranking s that magazines like IT come up with. Those serve no purpose apart from confusing would-be law students.
Are you from NALSAR or DU?
Rsvp
Are you from NALSAR or DU?[/quote]
Cant be a nalsariite Mr Top ranker. We dont care.
I thought NALSAR cares enough to put up ads in India Today? ;)
Best regards
Kian
Rank College
1 NLS-Bangalore
2 NALSAR-Hyderabad
3 NUJS-Kolkata
4 NLU-Jodhpur
5 NLIU-Bhopal
6 GNLU-Gandhinagar
7 GLC-Mumbai
8 NLU-Delhi
9 HNLU-Raipur
10 RMLNLU-Lucknow
11 Symbiosis, Pune
12 RGNUL-Patiala
13 ILS-Pune
14 SOEL-Chennai
15 NUALS-Cochin
16 School of Law, Christ University
17 Campus Law Center-Delhi
18 Jindal Global Law School
19 Amity Law School, Noida
20 CNLU-Patna
21 NLU Orissa
22 Army Institute of Law, Mohali
23 Dr.Ambedkar Law College, Chennai
24 ULC, Bangalore
25 Nirma Univesity
Symbi, ILS, CLC Delhi can't possibly lag behind RMLNLU - Lucknow, NLU Delhi RGNUL Patiala and what have you
These colleges consistently produce good (if not the best) students who get into the same law firms as the rest of the best... and most of the times make a good example of themselves. CLC has such a huge contribution to the litigation sector in Delhi... I'm not sure whether RGNUL Patiala and the Luvknow school can say the same
Also, relatively decent track record over many many years should also count for something... it is simply not good enough to be modelled on a successful formula
Eventually a very superficial analysis is produced with some gloss laid over it to make it seem as authentic as possibly (at least that's what I feel about the India Today rankings).
Rarely is there evaluation of a law school's faculty, teaching methods and opportunities for students that the school creates.
While I take these rankings with a good dose of salt, I would still like to have them around because they stir some debate and competitive camaraderie between institutions and their students. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a segue for LI to slowly start up it's own system of rankings. It wouldn't be a bad idea, and it might generate many more snarky comments than we've had in the past.
Even as part of the NLU student fraternity I am tired of lousy students going a 'one-up' on each other in comments.
Also,
It will increase LI's credibility.
1.Nalsar
2.NLS Bangalore
3.NLU Jodhpur
4.WBNUJS
5.NLIU Bhopal
6.NLU Delhi
7. ILS Law College Pune
8.GNLU
9. Symbiosis Law School
10. HNLU
11. Amity law school / Christ University , School of Law
12. Rmlnlu
13. CNLU , Patna
14. RGNUL , Patiala
15. NUALS kochi / NLU Orissa
*The rankings consist of only the five year law course offering Colleges / Universities / Schools
NLIU Bhopal above NLU Delhi?
CNLU above RGNUL, NUALS and NLUO?
Indeed very good rankings.