The India Today magazine has published its annual ad-supported college rankings supplement again, which also ranks law schools, and as we have written several times, other than the fact that a lot of parents make their choices based on that list, no one should really care.
We’re getting bored even writing about this, particularly since we vowed four years ago to reduce coverage and importance given to the India Today and Outlook law school rankings, but the sad and honest fact is that this is super easy copy to write and will result in thousands of law aspirant hits from Google so we’ll unashamedly post it anyway and hope that some of them may get a new perspective on the rankings and become delighted new LI readers.
So there, now you know.
For what it’s worth, the somewhat random selection of colleges, in order of ranking (and available here without having to click through 25 pages), are: NLSIU Bangalore, Campus Law Centre Delhi University, Nalsar Hyderabad, GNLU Gandhinagar, Symbiosis Pune, Faculty of Law Aligarh Muslim University, Christ College of Law, ILS Pune, BVP Pune, GGSIP University, Amity Delhi, HNLU Raipur, Banaras Hindu University, Army Institute of Law Mohali, Faculty of Law Jamia Millia Islamia, ICFAI Law School Dehradun, KLE Bangalore, GLC Mumbai, Kurukshetra University, MS Ramaiah College of Law, ULC Bangalore, BILS Bangalore, South Calcutta Law College, Siddharth College of Law Mumbai, Dr Ambedkar College of Law Mumbai.
Missing are obviously NUJS Kolkata (which has boycotted the rankings since 2011), NLIU Bhopal and NLU Jodhpur, NLU Delhi and nearly every other national law school, and … and why were we still writing about this?
Anyway, if you’re here for a law school ranking, we’re currently publishing a gentle series of ‘choose your law school sessions’, including some of the things you should be looking out for in a law school. Our list is not complete, it’s not comprehensive, and is not perfect, but at least it’s not based on thin air. Read the first in the series on recruitments here. More to follow shortly.
Also read: Want to know how magazines’ law school rankings work?.
Comments
Great work on calling this out again! Would you also be carrying out a feature on all the awards that the firms - tier one included. And the methodology?
http://www.legallyindia.com/201308223927/Legal-opinions/of-paid-news-leading-players-and-editorial-content-how-indian-law-firms-advertise
Anything else we should say about law firm awards, and are there any we should speak about in particular?
In short, most of them are nearly fully paid-for and bought, while some of the prizes are handed out to make everything seem more legitimate. One award gives 8 first prizes in every category, so basically anyone who comes to the event gets a prize, which is nice.
Not sure if there's much more to say?
Also, I feel it'd be a bit uncouth for me to be mean about named competitor magazines in this space... What say?
India today seems to be willing to gamble away its reputation for a few quick bucks
To begin there is a sponsored banner announcing Amity that loads even before the main ranking does
#1 The caption reads that retired SC/HC judges "have offered to assist the NLSIU". Hahaha Is this all they could come up with? Not even an accepted offer? Poor Rajendra Babu must be having a fit.
#2 This is the same department that was derecognised by the BCI and had a program shut down less than a year ago
#4 (Gallu) The caption proudly proclaims "The University is recognised by the Bar Council of India and University Grants Commission" Errrr so the others are not?
#7 (Christ) "The college offers LL.M programme as per UGC guidelines" Bravo, thats a first for any law school in India.
#9 - (Bharati Vidyapeeth's New Law College) So new that in 7 years at the bar Ive never heard of it
Hysterical! Keep em coming India Today, this fills up the vacuum left by the loss of Khushwant Singh's jokes
have you ever thought why these law firms recruiting every year in bulk but the overall head counts (obviously which is mix of alumni of top 10 the colleges mentioned in the list).
don't see thing through prism of hatred, NLU are not end of world, unless that helps you in minting quick bucks (some how)
all entrepreneur unlike you corporate slave.