The annual India Today magazine law school rankings have seen NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur and RGNUL Patiala disappear out of the magazine’s top 20 rankings, after NUJS Kolkata threatened the magazine with a press council complaint in 2010 and withdrew its participation by refusing to share details about it with the magazine.
This means that neither of the traditionally third, fourth nor fifth-most preferred national law schools are now represented in the rankings.
The last two years, NLIU Bhopal was in fifth place and NLU Jodhpur was in 10th and eighth place respectively.
NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad have held the first two spots for the last several years, followed by Delhi University’s law faculty in third, which is currently facing a Bar Council of India (BCI) probe and disaffiliation.
According to India Today, GNLU Gandhinagar was ranked fourth, followed by Symbiosis Pune, Aligarh Muslim University and ILS Law College Pune, while HNLU Raipur made its first entry into the table in ninth, and Nuals Kochi entered in 18th place.
Legally India had announced its reduction in coverage of magazine rankings of law schools in 2012.
Also read: Opinion - The final word on law school rankings and how they should matter (and how they shouldn’t)
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I don't think anyone really cares anymore :)
Wonder if that is the case with engineering, medical colleges etc. as well...
However irrelevant the survey, people will find reason to fight about it.
Agree there needs to be more transparency, but is a ranking the best way of doing that?
I don't think quality and whether a law school is suitable can be measured simply on a linear scale of best, second best, etc...
(a) those who write CLAT, i.e., students who are actually going to study in these universities, know.
(b) I don't know anybody who has ever relied on these rankings
Would love to do a ranking one day though, but it's one of those things that's really hard to get right and almost everyone will hate us for when we do bring it out and their favourite college does not perform as well. :)
With this incident theres a big question mark over the worth and accuracy of the rankings. I mean .... imagine an engineering college ranking with IIT-D,Kanpur and Guwahati out. The fact that IT chose to continue with the story has made them (India Today, not the law schools) look like fools.
So GNLU is now No. 4 all India. Wah ! I cant bother reading IT's rubbish but I hope they put in an explanation about the missing colleges for humanitarian reasons.
Besides the fact that Rank #3 is temporarily derecognised (unless my news is old)
I hope next year IIN will be at No. 1
Arts- 96%
Commerce- 96.80%
Science- 95. 20%
Source: Lawctopus
I had once visited that college for an exam & there were pigeons flying around & shitting everywhere inside the classroom!! Need i say more.
I had once visited that college for an exam & there were pigeons flying around & shitting everywhere inside the classroom!! Need i say more.[/quote]
Will the editors and staff of India Today go by their own crap ranking when it comes to their own kids????? Lets see if Arun Purie suggests GNLU Law or DU Law to his offspring if they ever decide to pursue law.
So they say that NLSIU's "factual rank" is #3 while NALSAR is #1, and DU is #2.
BHU gets #4 in all heads (academics, student care, reputation) but #17 in "factual rank"
Another gemstone is Christ College, Bangalore. It gets a #20 rank on just about every parameter but a #6 on "factual rank"
What a pile of Turd this ranking is. Unfortunate that the authors who came up with this horseradish did not see the CLAT preferences to get some idea.
RGNUL also boycotted. Name RGNUL in the caption too please.
Somebody tell me where is kurukshetra and how much the fees is