The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is released its latest welcome, much-awaited (but also controversial) National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) today.
Update 19:06: The top 4 are unchanged vis-a-vis last year, with IIT Kharagpur coming fourth.
However, NUJS Kolkata has replaced NLU Jodhpur in fifth place, climbing two ranks this year.
Symbiosis Law School Pune too has climbed, from ninth position last year to 7th this year. Jamia Milia Islamia bagged the 8th position, down from 6th.
But a new arrival is GNLU Gandhinagar, in 9th, which has taken RGNUL Patiala’s spot, which came in 10th.
NLIU Bhopal is in 11, followed by Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, and Indian Law Institute.
The NLU RMLNLU brings up the rear in the top 15, in 14th place, followed by Dr BR Ambedkar College of Law.
Highlights in the metrics
We have dug out the individual scores in four key metrics in the table below, which place NLU Delhi at the top for “teaching and learning resources”.
NLU Delhi has also topped in research & professional practice (besides IIT Kharagpur, which came in way out on top in research, with a score of 73).
Nalsar performed best in “graduation outcomes”, with a score of 83, closely followed not by an NLU, but by SLS Pune.
In terms of “outreach and inclusivity”, vague as that sounds, most law schools were between around 65 and 76 (with NLSIU and SLS performing best here).
However, NLSIU Bangalore clearly took it home with its perception score, which was still unrivalled and a perfect 100 out of 100.
20:41: FYI, none of the PDF links with more detailed reports, data and submissions on the official website seem to be working yet. Yet again, go NIC!
Full table with main 4 metrics
| Law school | Total | Teaching, Learning & Resources | Research & Professional Practice | Graduation Outcomes | Outreach & Inclusivity | Perception | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NLSIU Bangalore | 77.21 | 85.16 | 38.77 | 78.96 | 76.02 | 100 | |||||||||||||||
| NLU Delhi | 76.23 | 92.3 | 52.69 | 66.34 | 73.12 | 75.2 | |||||||||||||||
| Nalsar Hyderabad | 74.61 | 84.3 | 38.49 | 83.37 | 72.57 | 70.2 | |||||||||||||||
| IIT Kharagpur | 69.81 | 78.37 | 73.22 | 65.42 | 64.6 | 46.57 | |||||||||||||||
| NUJS Kolkata | 65.39 | 73.61 | 35.25 | 68.16 | 69.34 | 66.89 | |||||||||||||||
| NLU Jodhpur | 63.94 | 71.62 | 34.27 | 77.92 | 66.17 | 40.55 | |||||||||||||||
| SLS Pune | 60.68 | 61.86 | 17.19 | 81.93 | 76.91 | 51.84 | |||||||||||||||
| Jamia Millia Islamia | 59.49 | 62.15 | 51.04 | 64.4 | 72.66 | 35.98 | |||||||||||||||
| GNLU Gandhinagar | 58.64 | 69.79 | 22.62 | 66.9 | 70.2 | 35.98 | |||||||||||||||
| RGNUL Patiala | 55.53 | 63.31 | 29.01 | 60.35 | 71.75 | 35.98 | |||||||||||||||
| NLIU Bhopal | 53.41 | 58.83 | 24.95 | 61.67 | 56.95 | 50.15 | |||||||||||||||
| Kalinga Inst. of Industrial Tech. | 52.96 | 77.73 | 23.83 | 35.46 | 63.42 | 30.86 | |||||||||||||||
| ILI | 52.42 | 63.74 | 19.87 | 49.86 | 49.25 | 65.73 | |||||||||||||||
| RMLNLU Lucknow | 52.39 | 65.54 | 0 | 79.41 | 48.8 | 14.36 | |||||||||||||||
| BR Ambedkar College of Law | 50.58 | 66.17 | 4.16 | 61.9 | 49.32 | 30.86 |
Live blog below
We’re following the release of this fourth edition (but only really the second that will have a decent oversight of legal education) at the government’s livestream portal (thanks to a reader for pointing it out to us in the comments).
Since everyone is very excited, we’ll be updating this story live as the law school rankings are announced (though it could be a little while until all the other categories are done: law will be one of the last ones, we expect).
Last year, NLSIU Bangalore had come out top amongst 71 law schools, followed by NLU Delhi, Nalsar Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur, NLU Jodhpur, Jamia Milia Islamia, NUJS Kolkata, RGNUL Patiala, Symbiosis Law School and Dr BR Ambedkar College of Law.
Our analysis last year showed that some law schools certainly massaged their figures a little bit.
So, let’s see what today’s will look like.
16:51: Unsurprisingly, no pureplay law schools in the top 10 overall rankings.
16:54: That was fast. Law is out but we’re only getting the top 3: same same as last year. The full ranking website has not been updated yet.
16:58: NLS rep (that’s not VC Venkata Rao, is it?) receives its gong for being best at NIRF. [UPDATE: Yes it is, apparently - we will blame the low-resolution video feed.]
17:05: No real surprises in the NIRF top 3 then. To be honest, it’s unlikely NUJS could have worried last year’s top 3. In fact, in light of the administrative turmoil it’s been in, it’ll be a pleasant if NUJS even managed to prepare its submissions properly and in time.
The top 3, however, clearly have a pretty slick administrative machinery doing its submissions every year, which is half the battle won in most such rankings.
19:06 The full law rankings are now live on the NIRF website. Fuller analysis up top in this story.
Comments
1. It is the first time that NLIU participated in Nirf rankings;
2.This decision to participate was taken very hastily, close to the deadline of submitting documents;
3.The students were not informed of such a decision. An email was mailed to the students ID which could only attract a lukewarm response from them.
While these rankings are authoritative, they don't reflect the actual status.
https://www.educationtimes.com/article/260/201811122018111212355284a777915e/There-has-been-a-historic-prejudice-against-private-universities-says-VC-of-OP-Jindal-Global-University--.html
Yes, Mamata is bad but do not blame her for the crisis. Look inwards and ask yourselves if students have honestly been committed towards meritocracy and not taken shortcuts.
https://www.nirfindia.org/Parameter
[b]Teaching, Learning & Resources[/b]
Student Strength including Doctoral Students
Faculty-student ratio with emphasis on permanent faculty (FSR)
Combined metric for Faculty with PhD (or equivalent) and Experience (FQE)
Total Budget and Its Utilisation: (CBTU)
[b]Research and Professional Practice[/b]
Combined metric for Publications (PU)
Combined metric for Quality of Publications (QP)
IPR and Patents: Filed, Published, Granted and Licensed (IPR)
Footprint of Projects and Professional Practice And Executive Development Programs (FPPP):
[b]Graduation Outcomes[/b]
Combined % for Placement, Higher Studies, and Entrepreneurship (GPHE)
Metric for University Examinations: GUE
Median Salary
Metric for Graduating Students Admitted Into Top Universities (GTOP)
Metric for Number of Ph.D. Students Graduated GPHD
[b]Outreach and Inclusivity[/b]
Percent Students from other states/countries (Region Diversity RD)
Percentage of Women (WF) + (WS) + (WA)
Economically and Socially Challenged Students (ESCS)
Facilities for Physically Challenged Students (PCS)
[b]Perception[/b]
Peer Perception: Employers and Research Investors (PREMP)
Peer Perception: Academics (PRACD)
Public Perception (PRPUB)
Competitiveness (PRCMP)
Any RGNLU student would concede to Symbi and would not want to be placed near GNLU.
1. Cheaters KIIT, SLS and Jamia submitted fake data.
2. IIT law school is a niche IP law school open only to BTech grads. It cannot be included. Same for ILI.
Here is a fair ranking:
1. NLSIU
2. NLUD
3. NALSAR
4. NUJS
5. NLUJ
6 .NLIU
7. GNLU
8. NLUO
9. RGNUL
10. HNLU
WHAT DO LAW SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS AT LAW SCHOOL CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY ?
Let's place them higher than FMS (in management rankings) cause IITK any day has better reputation (though as a tech school) than FMS.
Did you skip logical reasoning in law school?
1) NLSIU
2) NALSAR
3) NLUD
4) GNLU
5) NUJS
6) NLUJ
7)NLIU
8) RGNUL
9) SLS
10) NLUO
2) NALSAR
3) NUJS
4) NLUD
5) NLUJ
6)NLIU
7) GNLU
9) SLS
10) JGLS
That's a heavier parameter than anything else obviously.
NLSIU>NLUD or NALSAR>NUJS>NLUJ>NLIU>GNLU>JGLS>MNLU>RGNUL or HNLU or NLUO or HNLU>Symbi
The rankings are well conceived but poorly administered, with data hardly being verified.
SLS Pune and even ILI, for instance, have shockingly low marks for research. BR Ambedkar College has a rating of 4 out of 100 in research... RMLNLU Lucknow apparently did not submit anything in that category, with a score of 0, so it couldn't have been that important to them either.
1. Disclosure: All info must be shared.
2. Low placement scores: Max 20 out of 450+ graduating batch get tier 1 jobs (barely 5%)
3. Low teaching score: Big batch size means more teachers, percentage of good teachers goes down. NLU alumni teaching are not that many now. Also, only few sections get good teachers.
4. Low diversity score: Huge fees, few scholarships, no IDIA students.
5. Low perception score: Indisciplined brats.
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2019/law-legal-studies
https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/national-law-school-india-university
;-)
1. NALSAR
2. NLUD
3. NLSIU
4. IIT
5. NUJS
6. NLUJ
7. GNLU
8. NLIU
9. RMLNLU
10. RGNUL
Please note the following:
1. Some colleges have good placements but are low on perception, so rank is lower.
2. Colleges with best faculty and research fare better.
3. Since national diversity is counted, colleges with high domicile quota lose out. But NALSAR gains as it has a woman's quota, so high gender diversity.
1. BALLB degree from NLUs + LLM/PhD from a reputed international university, or certain highly regarded Indian universities (like JNU, IIM, TISS etc).
2. At least 5 to 7 years of teaching or industry experience.
3. Publications in leading international and Indian journals. An objective way to determine this is to count those journals indexed in Westlaw, Hein Online, Scopus and JSTOR (the Indian ones indexed include EPW, JILI and law reviews of NLSIU, NALSAR and NUJS). One can also include books published by OU, CUP, Routledge and other top publishers, or chapters within such books.
4. Worked on major research projects.
5. Received scholarships, grants etc.
Based on these criteria, NLUD has an edge over others.
1. NUJS
2.NLSIU
3. NALSAR
4. NLIU
5. NLUJ/NLU-D
7. GNLU
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/there-has-been-a-historic-prejudice-against-private-universities/articleshow/66600397.cms
1. NLSIU
2. NALSAR
3. WBNUJS
4. NLIU
5. NLUJ
6. GNLU
Difficult to gauge NLU-D due to AILET but i definitely expect it to be somewhere around 3/4
Further, its a sham that Jamia, Symbi have been ranked over NLIU. Kian can you investigate and do a report on the datas which have been sent by the law schools?
The biggest example is symbi getting ranked over NUJS in graduation outcomes. Are you kidding me? NUJS recruitments far outweigh any law school in India let alone Symbi where everyone knows that Day zero is non existent and placements have virtually been reduced to minimal and cannot be even compared to the Big Seven NLUs. Can anyone remember when was the last time symbi pune came out with public placement figures?
Kian why did you stop the MPL? It was one of the best initiatives taken by Legally India.
Also , who are the CLAT advisers refered to ? NLUD fake accounts online ?
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/glc-gets-strict-about-mus-75-per-cent-attendance-rule/articleshow/68803538.cms
Just try to SEE. The most liberal faculty is here.
Kian, kindly update.
1. NLSIU: 15.2 lakhs
2. NALSAR: 15 lakhs
3. NUJS 15 lakhs
4. NLUJ: 14.5 lakhs
5. NLUD: 13.8 lakhs
6. Symbiosis: 9.75 lakhs
7. NLIU: 9.2 lakhs
8 RNGUL: 7.5 lakhs
9. IIT: 7.4 lakhs
10. GNLU: 6 lakhs
11. RMLNLU: 4.8 lakhs
12. ILI: 4.4 lakhs
13. KIIT: 3.9 lakhs
14. Ambedkar: 2.2 lakhs
15. Jamia: 0
1. Lawyer's chambers salaries were excluded, which is fair. Only firms were considered.
2. NLUJ placements have been very good the past few years, comparable to the top 3 and much batter than NLIU, GNLU etc. Everything can be verified with facts. We are open to scrutiny.
3. In addition to law firms there were some blockbuster in-house placements, which were also included.
And no NLU-J does not have ‘batter’ placements than NLIU-B
- Win Jessup twice
- Top the training contracts in recruitments every year
- Have at least one Rhodes scholar a year
- Get a world class VC
- Abolish domicile and NRI quotas
- Hope that standards fall shockingly at NLSIU, that Sudhir does not become VC
https://epaper.thestatesman.com/c/38541424
https://indianexpress.com/article/education/will-get-gnlu-a-spot-on-global-rankings-professor-shantha-kumar-5833159/
I also request LI to please to interview the person in charge and inform him of the cheating that happened, i.e. National Board of Accreditation Chairman Prof KK Agarwal or Member-secretary Prof Anil Nassa. Both are engineering professors who probably don't have a clue about law schools and don't get suspicious.
https://www.nbaind.org/about/organizationalstructure
Their email and phone is available publicly.
Another head is number of PhD students graduated where NLUD is ahead of the other two. Which is also problematic, since number here can't reflect actual quality. But that's probably NIRF's fault having designed the metric thus, not NLUD's. But this focus on quantity over quality is again apparent there.
NLUD also ranks high in terms of regional diversity among students, which is accurate given that it has no domicile reservation at all, but at the same time, it also ranks high for women students. That's a bit ironical, considering several controversies that's taken place there over the years about campus misogyny etc.
https://nirfcdn.azureedge.net/2019/graph/Law/1.jpg : NLSIU
https://nirfcdn.azureedge.net/2019/graph/Law/2.jpg: NLUD
https://nirfcdn.azureedge.net/2019/graph/Law/3.jpg: NALSAR
https://nirfcdn.azureedge.net/2019/graph/Law/5.jpg: NUJS
As I said, if you count total publications, quality of publications and research project footprint together, then NLUD still has the highest score, 52.69, followed by NLSIU (38.76), NALSAR (38.49) and NUJS (35.25). But it is clear from the QP score what the scene is.
So, kindly quit blowing smoke. I back my comments on stats, instead of making vague generalizations like you seem to be fond of. Your comment makes it seem that the only thing here are you!
[quote]“I get to work with deans of Ivy League universities of the world. I will be in a comfortable position to rope in a lot of them into my advisory committee and also get them to come and teach at the university,” he added.
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[quote]“So I am going to motivate each and every teacher to write a lot and publish articles so that we are known outside as a great research institute.”
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[quote] “I know it would be difficult to get students from European countries or the United States but I have a good connect with law schools in southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, and Cambodia. So from next year, you will see foreign students at GNLU.”
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https://indianexpress.com/article/education/will-get-gnlu-a-spot-on-global-rankings-professor-shantha-kumar-5833159/
https://www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/bimal-patel-gets-wrist-slap-on-last-day-as-gnlu-director-for-apparent-poaching-of-staff-to-new-gig-at-gmu-new-chief-to-focus-on-int-l-research-20190717-10747