NMIMS places 47 students in class of 2018

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 By Legally India Law schools

Kirit P Mehta School of Law, NMIMS, Mumbai placed 47 out of 59 graduates in its LLB class of 2018, including 15 pre placement offers (PPO), with law firms, companies and in LLM programs.

25 organisations including 19 law firms, 5 companies and 1 LPO hired graudates from the law schools while 7 others received LLM offers.

Wadia Ghandy picked up 4 graduates, Khaitan & Co, Universal Legal and LPO Integreon picked up 3 graduates each, and law firms J Sagar Associates (JSA), AZB & Partners, Juris Corp and Aurus Legal and companies Nomura and Phoenix ARC each picked up 2 graduates.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Amazon and Edelweiss were the other big names among the list of final recruiters from the batch.

LAW FIRM/ COMPANIES

| NO. OF STUDENTS PLACED | PPOs | Campus Placement | |---|---|---|---| | Wadia Ghandy | 4 | 4 | | | Integreon | 3 | | 3 | | Khaitan | 3 | 3 | | | IC Universal Legal | 3 | 3 | | | Nomura | 2 | 2 | | | Juris Corp | 2 | | 2 | | Aurus Legal | 2 | 2 | | | JSA | 2 | 1 | 1 | | Phoenix ARC (Kotak Group) | 2 | 1 | 1 | | AZB | 2 | 2 | | | SAM | 1 | | 1 | | Amazon | 1 | | 1 | | Bharucha & Partners | 1 | | 1 | | Samvad Partners | 1 | | 1 | | Edelweiss | 1 | | 1 | | Khaitan Legal Associates | 1 | | 1 | | ALBA Law Offices | 1 | | 1 | | Oasis Counsel & Advisory | 1 | 1 | | | Saffron Broadcast & Media Pvt. Ltd. | 1 | 1 | | | Zerick Dastur | 1 | 1 | | | Advani & Co. | 1 | 1 | | | Kanga & Co. | 1 | 1 | | | V.A. Associates | 1 | 1 | | | Veritas legal | 1 | | 1 | | Vidhi Partners | 1 | 1 | | | LLM: University of California | 1 | | | | LLM: Queen Mary University | 1 | | | | LLM: Santa Clara University | 2 | | | | LLM: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva | 1 | | | | LLM: King’s College | 1 | | | | LLM: Maastricht University | 1 | | |

According to the placement cell, the highest package bagged by this batch was for Rs 16 lakh per annum and the lowest was for Rs 6 lakh per annum. The 9 students opting for LLM have offers with foreign universities, the cell added.

Comments

Guest 17 Oct 2018, 05:55

+24 -7

Wow. These placements are better than HNLU and many of the lower ranked NLUs, yet this law school does not get publicity. It deserves the status of a top 15 law school. This is assuming that these jobs were not secured through GLC-style lifelong internships or through contacts.

Guest 17 Oct 2018, 06:36

+16 -7

If we subtract jobs secured through contacts altogether, then the figures of even many top-tier NLUs won't look as glorious anymore. I agree with you about these figures for NMIMS being quite good.

Scooter Libby 17 Oct 2018, 07:37

+5 -19

Nah. You have arrived as a law school when the lawfirms trust your lawschool and the education there so much that they will come and recruit on day zero (campus placement) without the students having interned with the firms. These folks are not quite there yet. Probably will never be.

xx 17 Oct 2018, 06:44

+11 -27

Can confirm - It'sGLC style lifelong internships and contacts only.

GLC 17 Oct 2018, 08:52

+21 -1

Disagree. Am a student of GLC, but have heard that NMIMS is extremely strict about attendance (one of the reasons I don't particularly care for SVKM's institutions). It also has a pretty good reputation across all sectors of education in Mumbai, including Engineering, Management etc.

Bombay College 17 Oct 2018, 07:20

+13 -5

This college is now one of the best in India.

Placements. It's all we want.

P.S.- Willing to sell myself to the devil for it.

NALSARite 17 Oct 2018, 07:46

+14 -36

These stats are a hoax, been there and have seen it, the students are fed up and don’t go to classes. Yes it’s the lifelong internships. The truth is there ain’t that many jobs for people. The only uni except top 5-6 thats doing great is Jindal Global Law School and I can agree to that but please Don’t mislead people like that

GLC 17 Oct 2018, 16:06

+11 -3

I completely trust these figures. Im in touch with few students of NMIMS and although they have strict attendance policy they are excelling in all domains.

They have a dedicated Placement Cell and team which is very positive and aggressive be it Internships or Placement which has become extinct in law schools these days.

Good going NMIMS.
Hope few of my colleagues from final year get great placememts too.
Fingers crossed.
Best of luck NMIMS.

GLC 18 Oct 2018, 05:10

+3 -1

I am commentor 2.1.

While I have heard of NMIMS' attendance policy, I haven't really come across their teams excelling across "all domains". At least I haven't seen much participation at our events. You may be better informed, though. Either way, good on you NMIMS!

P.S. Would have preferred if you'd have chosen a different nom de plume on this thread (e.g. GLC2), to avoid confusion.

Symbiosis Law Student 17 Oct 2018, 16:15

+3 -0

This is wonderful considering that I didn't choose NMIMS because of the attendance policy which made me skeptical about the ability of getting placed. It is very rare for a young law school to show such great promise!

Guest 17 Oct 2018, 20:46

+2 -2

Kian, it is high time you do a proper ranking of placements like you used to. That will settle all debates.

Well wisher 18 Oct 2018, 04:59

Disregarding the critics, good to see this progress and wishing all new recruits the best.

Yes, agree with Bombay College - placements are worth selling yourself to the devil, as thats all that matters to a fresher out of college looking forward to kick start a career.

Good luck fellas !

Tanuj Kalia, Lawctopus 18 Oct 2018, 10:47

+10 -0

Some comments:

1. These are excellent placements, better than most NLUs (except the top 6), and deserve to be applauded. NMIMS enters my top 10-15 list of suggested law colleges.

2. The stats vindicate the theses of 'prefer a good college in Delhi or Mumbai over joining a lesser ranked NLU'.

3. Placements are a tiny part of legal education, but when the rubber meats the road, they are perhaps the most important.

The only thing that comes close to 'placements' (in an undergrad education) is the quality of the peer group (and there's no reason to believe that NMIMS does not offer that).

As far as faculty goes (which should be an important criteria), India just does not have enough resources (incentives, training, pedagogy) or processes (UGC mandates, buereaucracy) to get more than 10 law colleges quality law teachers.

The quality of faculty is bad throughout (only NLUD and JGLS have a good cohort) which makes it fit to remove 'faculty' as a 'criteria' altogether.

Homie 18 Oct 2018, 21:59

+2 -1

NALSAR also has decent faculty.

Guest 19 Oct 2018, 04:47

+1 -0

No. A few only. Like most other places. It is trying to change that for the better though. Location is a big disadvantage.

Guest 19 Oct 2018, 04:53

+5 -1

Tanuj, I've a question. We keep hearing all the glorious accounts of how good a bunch of faculty are there at NLUD or JGLS. Which may well be even true at least on paper regarding their degrees and qualification. But if their teaching prowess was also superior and commensurate with the claims, then how is it that the graduates from those two places aren't obviously ahead of other law grads? Neither place is exactly young anymore. The difference ought to have shown by now, don't you think? I've found the quality of graduates more or less identical among the top tier NLUs at least. And frankly, if more qualified teachers can't teach better, then what's the use of such additional qualification insofar as undergrad teaching is concerned? It may help to enhance the profile of the university and in research though, I agree on that part. But not when it comes to actual teaching, which NLUs are still almost entirely focused on.

FFS 19 Oct 2018, 19:04

+0 -2

Dear Guest, you have been posting on multiple threads with the same question, trashing NLUD and JGLS faculty. It's time you accept that the faculty is indeed better. Show me another NLU doing research like the death penalty report or having Yale PhDs and NLSIU alum on the faculty. As for JGLS, the faculty includes a former judge of the Law of the Sea Tribunal teaching international law and several NLU alum and ex law firmites teaching commercial law subjects. But this does not guarantee placements at NLUD and JGLS will be better as that depends on how motivated and hard working the students are, not the faculty.

Guest 20 Oct 2018, 03:47

+4 -0

The question is not about placements, but about grad student quality. I never contested about faculty research, simply the teaching ability of the faculty to undergraduates. If the superior faculty quality doesn't help the students learn more, then my point stays. I've never found the average graduate quality of NLUD to be any better (or worse) than that of NLSIU, NALSAR or NUJS. Which again brings the question, what do these superior faculty do in classrooms? Or are they too busy doing their own research to devote time and effort to teaching? Your reply doesn't answer any of those questions. I don't believe the students of NLUD are in any way inferior to those of other law schools that even if they get much better teachers, they would still perform only as much as those getting worse teachers.

Tiddly Winks 20 Oct 2018, 05:21

@FFS: I agree with you about the qualifications of the faculty there, but I couldn't help notice that Guest here wasn't questioning about the research profile of the faculty at all. In fact, he seemed to agree that having such people improves upon the university profile and research output. The question was about knowledgeable faculty being able to impart their knowledge better to young students compared to less qualified faculty. That is actually a difficult metric to determine. An excellent research scholar need not be a great or even a good teacher. All other things being equal, I would say NLUD faculty would still be ahead, because they teach at least as well as faculty from other places (similar graduate quality) and they do better research. I think that would answer Guest's point too since by his own admission, he didn't find NLUD students to be any worse than others.

Nmims law student 30 Jun 2021, 13:44

+0 -0

The faculty is actually very good.

$$$ 26 Nov 2018, 11:28

[quote]The 9 students opting for LLM have offers with foreign universities, the cell added.[/quote]

I did not know a debt trap qualifies as an "[i]offer[/i]"

confused. 10 Jun 2019, 15:26

I am thinking of joining nmims, is it really a good college and is it worth for a person to come from northern state to join this college? or is it just an average college with fake hype?

update 25 Jul 2021, 14:42

+2 -0

so did you take admission or not? also give a review if you did

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