Mint throws weight behind national law school giants

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Another week, another law school ranking: national daily Mint has ranked the large national law colleges in the top five positions, in its India’s best colleges supplement it published today.

Mint has placed National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore in first, closely followed by Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad and National University of Juridicial Sciences, Kolkata (NUJS).

The schools in the top three positions were unchanged since last year, and achieved 637, 627 and 619 points respectively in the rankings.

The runners up in fourth and fifth were National Law University, Jodhpur and National Law Institute University, Bhopal, which swapped places from their positions last year.

Mint’s methodology used a combination of the rankings used by India Today magazine and Outlook magazine last week. Mint contacted faculty members and legal professionals with a questionnaire, asking them to rate each of intellectual capital, pedagogic systems and processes, placements, and “infrastructure and support systems”.

Each category was weighted with intellectual capital being allocated 250 points down to infrastructure and support systems, which was worth 150 points.

The paper did not publish the sample size used.

Faculty of Law Delhi University came sixth; Government Law College, Mumbai jumped up the rankings to seventh; ILS Law College, Pune was unchanged at eight; Amity Law School, Delhi made it into the top ten for the first time at nine; and Symbiosis Law School, Pune closed the list at ten.

Click here for a PDF of the full ranking on livemint.com.

Have a look at India Today’s and Outlook India’s competing law school rankings, which excited heated debate from readers last week.

Comments

neocog 25 Jun 2009, 05:11
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Yeah..Keep adding on to the confusion. I guess I will average out the rankings for an year, then apply a standard deviation for each year, then apply a sensitivity analysis,,,,,,,,.

Who are these rankings trying to convert....The crowd seems to be more informed than all these editors combined. If there are n rankings and there is so much of a deviation between them, then it is clear that these rankings serve no purpose other than being
self serving..
anonymous 25 Jun 2009, 11:35
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agree...though i am from one of the law schools that is ranked (maybe undeservingly) good on all the lists, it seems that the points scored are directly proportional to the hospitality enjoyed by the concerned editor at each law school.
XYZ 25 Jun 2009, 13:43
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As a former law student and current professional, I feel that The Mint rankings are the closest to reality. India Today is a joke while Outlook rankings make sense upto the top 3.