CLAT 2014 preferences: NLU Jodhpur catches up to NLIU as NUJS nabs 3 'from' NLS

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Thursday, 17 July 2014 By Legally India Pre-law student

The margin between NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal is negligible this year, according to an analysis of the preferences of candidates taking the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT), while NUJS Kolkata has narrowed the gap slightly towards Nalsar Hyderabad in second place.

As in previous years, Legally India has compiled a “Super 30 Score” by averaging the all India CLAT rank of the 30 highest scoring candidates admitted to each university.

There has been no change in the Super 30 rankings of the top eight-preferred national law schools – NLSIU Bangalore, Nalsar, NUJS, NLIU, NLU Jodhpur, GNLU Gandhinagar, HNLU Raipur and RMLNLU Lucknow.

However, although NLIU Bhopal is still in fourth place in the CLAT preferences, Bhopal’s Super 30 was only 4.2 ranks ahead of Jodhpur this year, compared to a lead of 47 ranks last year.

Three potential NLSites ‘defect’ to NUJS

NLSIU Bangalore still scored 55 out of the top 60 CLAT scorers this year, however, this year the sixth and seventh rankers opted for NUJS. Rank 31 and 37 went to Nalsar Hyderabad, meanwhile, as rank 47 also opted for NUJS.

However, between rank 61 and 103, all candidates opted for Nalsar with the exception of the 67th and 102nd rank who went for NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal respectively.

From rank 104 NUJS dominates the preference rankings, with NLIU Bhopal and NLU Jodhpur beginning to make more regular appearances.

The rankings are illustrated in the charts below, which plot the all India CLAT rank of everyone admitted to each law college against each other. A lower line in the chart signifies that CLAT takers have preferred the college over another in their choice.

Younger NLU’s incoming CLAT ranks

Amongst the younger schools, RGNUL Patiala climbed two Super 30 ranks ahead of Nuals Kochi and CNLU Patna.

Nuals stayed in the same position but CNLU fell three places to twelth in the table.

NLU Orissa climbed one rank, while the newest national law schools NUSRL Ranchi and NLUJA Assam traded places at the bottom of the rankings.

Super 30 ranks & data

2014 Super 30 rank‘13 rank2014 Super 30 score2014 Highest general list rankGeneral list places ‘14*2013 Super 30 score2012 Super 30 pref2013 Highest general list rank2012 Highest rankFounded
NLSIU Bangalore1117.215315.51111987
Nalsar Hyderabad2272.5314971.7230111998
NUJS Kolkata33109.7677120.7349201999
NLIU Bhopal44199.910253169.14791031997
NLU Jodhpur55204.16773216.6588782001
GNLU Gandhinagar66294.2129109321.961962192003
HNLU Raipur77397.239186400.173222702003
RMLNLU Lucknow88406.527082427.892383292006
RGNUL Patiala911516.829768586.5104932082006
Nuals Kochi1010555.239736553.582011902005
NLUO Orissa1112634.944339623.3112773232009
CNLU Patna129677.856856545.5123033132006
NUSRL Ranchi1314772.759047797.7133454902010
NLUJA Assam1413799.363231790.1146674082009

*Some figures are approximations. Methodology: Super 30 is the average of the top 30 India CLAT ranks admitted to each college. The All India CLAT rank is calculated from every CLAT taker admitted to national law schools.

Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT)Clat 2014law school rankingsNLSIU BangaloreNUJS KolkataNalsar HyderabadNLIU BhopalNLU JodhpurGNLU GandhinagarHNLU RaipurRMLNLU LucknowRGNUL PatialaNuals KochiCNLU PatnaNLU OrissaNLUJA AssamNUSRL RanchiCommon Law Admission Test (CLAT)

Comments

pi 17 Jul 2014, 12:41
+10 -6
nice graph, but you can also do heatmap of all general students to show how the distribution is, super 30 gives only a snapshot of the leading edge and the results may vary if you make it super 50 or super 80, or just an avergae of gen students etc. a heatmap would take this avg factor away and allow the readers to form their own conclusion
kianganz 17 Jul 2014, 12:45
+8 -7
Thanks, that's interesting - what would a heatmap look like?

The line graphs are quite useful in that they show the entirety of applicants and you can tell across the board, including reservations and the like, which college is more popular with Clat takers.

The Super 30 is a Super 30 because a few of the newer colleges only have 30 general list places, so doing a Super 50 or 80 for them would result in a skewed result for them. And the top 30 at each college are a fairly representative sample of the general CLAT taker preferences, I think, though I'm not a statistician... :)
Econometrician 5 Sept 2014, 19:56
+8 -5
Kian,

Was expecting graphs of better quality. This article has images which are probably ~600x300, not good enough for looking closely.

Pi's right, top 200 gen category preferences over years would help better in painting a picture of student preferences over time with a little lesser bias. For heatmaps, generate preferences over ranks with colours (gradients for bands, reds= tier 1, oranges=tier2 etc) to each university. You can easily generate this using a package called ggplot in R (a GNU Stat software) or alterantively in STATA.

Also, share the above data? Lesser asymmetric information = better choices.
ex Nujs 17 Jul 2014, 12:44
+47 -19
I can bet my life that the three people who have chosen NUJS over NLSIU are bongs!
AAA 17 Jul 2014, 12:58
+18 -30
Which is great, coz bongs are better than the South Indians who go to NSLIU and NALSAR, such up to the South Indian teachers there, and get good grades because of nepotism.
NUJS is NLSIU is NALSAR 17 Jul 2014, 13:06
+18 -4
These 3 colleges have the same things on offer. There's nothing which NLSIU gives you which NUJS doesn't.

However, off late, both NLSIU's and NUJS' reputation have suffered while NALSAR seems to be dong better.

Nevertheess, [b]NLSIU and NUJS both still had probably the best recruitments among all law colleges in 2014[/b](and placement stats are high on a CLAT takers agenda).

NUJS and NLSIU have easily the [b]most proactive student bodies[/b] among Indian law colleges (thanks to Madhava Menon NUJS followed NLSIU's mode of having a Students Juridical Association).

Students in these colleges don't mind speaking before the administration, signing petition, complaining to the higher authorities and actually effectuating change; things which are unheard of in colleges like RGNUL Patiala or NLUJA Assam.

[b]This makes NLS and NUJS very strong structurally and no VC or Registrar , howsoever bad can fuck up too much.[/b]

The Bongs made a wise choice of staying close to their homes and enjoying the best legal education on offer.
Venkat Rao 17 Jul 2014, 18:33
+2 -2
Lol, I just did!
Aspirant 19 Jul 2014, 01:13
+3 -0
How does faculty of NUJS compare to NLSIU ? Are these students doing the right decision ? I hear many faculty have left both NUJS and NLSIU
FAAACCCKKKK 19 Jul 2014, 15:52
+0 -0
[quote name="NUJS is NLSIU is NALSAR"]
This makes NLS and NUJS very strong structurally and no VC or Registrar , howsoever bad can [b]fuck[/b] up too much.[/quote]

Brah! "faaccckkk"! Freedom of speech brah!

Whattey!
No kidding 22 Jul 2014, 14:25
+0 -2
How do these 3 have the same on offer? Not that everything else e.g. recruitment and faculty is constant, but if it were so, location alone would put NALSAR behind NLSIU and NUJS. As far as alumni base and track record is concerned, NLSIU scores better.
Guest 28 Jul 2014, 11:03
+1 -0
Not much to choose between the three location-wise.
Guest 5 Aug 2014, 07:01
+2 -3
What a sly, disguised, surreptitious and ridiculous attempt at painting NUJS in the same colours as NLSIU n NALSAR ! The fact that NUJS is not NLSIU or NALSAR is so terribly hard to digest for some !
Guest 18 Nov 2014, 15:49
+0 -1
im sure ur a bong !
MP Singh and Shamnad Basheer 17 Jul 2014, 13:09
+5 -7
Had Prof. Singh stayed for one more year along with his team of Prof. Basheer and the like, NUJS would have soon become the number 1 destination for legal education in India.

A posh location in a magnificent city, the best of placements, a proactive student body, the best faculty and a living legend for a head...alas!

Still, am waiting to see the present VC and registrar leave NUJS to see some reality in the NLSIU v. NUJS fight soon.
yo yo 17 Jul 2014, 14:41
+12 -1
Posh location where toilets are being broken to construct hostel for girls....you sir must be from South Bombay
Chal! 17 Jul 2014, 18:03
+6 -0
Dude get a name for yourself. If NUJS is nothing because of these two Professors, then, well, NUJS is, in fact, nothing. Perhaps, you may buckle up to this real world, instead of hoping for some heads to roll? Or wait, are you one of the two chaps?
@ 2.3 22 Jul 2014, 14:23
+4 -0
You forgot to add that NUJS lacks residential facilities for all its students.
guest 28 Jul 2014, 08:25
+2 -0
best faculty ?
what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yo yo 17 Jul 2014, 14:39
+0 -0
This is so true and funny that I must write it is in full- Rolling over the Floor Laughing
yo yo 17 Jul 2014, 17:34
+0 -0
This is so true that I must write it is in full- Rolling over the Floor Laughing
Mumbaikar 18 Jul 2014, 16:48
+4 -4
Well, lemme tell u a far greater no. of Bongs travel to Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad (for jobs and education) than south Indians can ever do. South Indians are mostly absent in the north and east and present in very small nos. in my home-town Mumbai.....so am wondering if ur comment has any substance to it at all! As far as NUJS is concerned, I blv it has always had excellent placements and a comparable academic/co-curricular level : so a resident of Calcutta may well prefer NUJS over NLS given its more economical (living in ur home town)and just plain easier!
Guest 31 Jul 2014, 05:37
+0 -0
And i can bet the 8 objections are also bongs !
nujs 17 Jul 2014, 17:23
+0 -2
it's air 5 and not 6.
AplaChino 17 Jul 2014, 18:11
+8 -0
'Nabs' three?! Kian, you make it sound as though law schools are the new law firms! The rat-race begins at CLAT...
No 3 28 Jul 2014, 05:41
+3 -2
No 3 is not so bad in any hierarchy ! Every one seems to be in such a hurry/passionate ( seen by the liberal use of words like 'nab', 'defect' etc. ) to make NUJS not look like No 3 ! Like the famous Avis (U.S car rental Co.) ad "we are no 2,we try harder !". And why will NLSIU & NALSAR allow themselves to be dislodged ? One can talk of NLSIU/NALSAR in the same breath. Not NUJS !
Guest 17 Jul 2014, 20:26
+2 -0
Kian, how many people (and at what ranks) dropped clat schools for non-clat schools like nlud and jindal? Sometime ago, LI had run a blog by a nlud student explaining why he had dropped nls for nlud. I wonder how widespread that phenomenon is, and how nlud and jindal rank in student preferences.
pi 17 Jul 2014, 21:39
+0 -0
pls do provide a link to the raw data if available
One 18 Jul 2014, 03:27
+26 -2
My law school ___________ is better than your law school __________________. Even though i have not been to your law school to make an objective comparison regarding academics, quality of teachers, facilities, but I have heard about it and seen placement figures (which is the only incentive for someone to join law!), and I firmly believe that my law school is better than your law school, or for that matter, your IIT, IIM, MITs…….
Laaa Student! 18 Jul 2014, 05:27
+1 -0
I think that you should do this for the last 30 students because the top 30 after the top 5 NLU's are based on location. Last 30 students to get into a college would give a better picture.

Thanks.
kianganz 18 Jul 2014, 05:36
+1 -1
That's actually quite a good point - the lines on the graph do flatten out considerably after the top 10 or 20 or so at each college.
bong 18 Jul 2014, 11:17
+6 -15
NUJS is at best a distant third n will ever remain so period.
Chal! 19 Jul 2014, 04:58
+1 -0
[quote name="bong"]NUJS is at best a distant third n will ever remain so period.[/quote]

Ok. Now go work/study.
Resu 19 Jul 2014, 07:22
+1 -1
Such fundamentally flawed principles that it isn't even funny.
Tanvi 19 Jul 2014, 09:16
+3 -0
Half of the HNLU students leave after 4th CLAT list is out which eventually leads to admission of lower rank students which they clearly hide by not showing the ranks on the website.
sceptic 21 Jul 2014, 07:21
+4 -0
Analyses hardly matter this year. In any case the score cutoffs are highly suspect. It is impossible for any one to score more than 160 in clat 2014. Based on historical best average scores ( correct answers ), the best scores this yr can only be(in terms of no. of correct answers), english - 35, logical - 36, arithmetic - 19, GK - 34 ( actually quite tough this yr with 13 questions being unanswerable ), legal - 42. If one takes no. of attempts at 190, this gives 24 incorrect and 166 correct answers which in turn gives a final score of 160 ( 166 minus 6 ). But surprise of surprises, I hear that as many as 40 or more candidates hv got 160+ scores ! what a conspiracy of silence man, conspiracy of silence!
hype 21 Jul 2014, 07:37
+3 -0
The hype that this yr clat was easier than last yr seems deliberately propounded and actively propagated. Nothing can be as easy as last yr's test (the first with -ve marks). And there seemed to be a section which was crying itself hoarse that this yr's test was very very easy and so on, the minute after the exam ! Probably as an advance explanation for the fantastic cutoffs in large numbers that somebody knew would be coming possibly due to too many spilled beans !!
beans can be spilled 21 Jul 2014, 09:50
+3 -0
CLAT 2014 - a tale of too many spilled beans ! you think ?
Guest 23 Jul 2014, 08:49
+0 -3
Why do ppl choose NUJS and NALSAR over NLS-B??? cant think of any reason placements and campus is all pathetic. Wonder whether NLS and NALSAR hve any faculty to boast about. Nowdays NLU D and NLS-B are cornering all the good teachers
Guest 23 Jul 2014, 10:32
+5 -1
It has been the historical experience in the country as well as world over that it is not at all easy to change the established pecking order of institutions in any given field ! All insinuations that the pecking order of NLUs is quite fluid still, should rest forthwith ! Unlike IITs n IIMs, there is not the luxury of too much depth to the pecking order in law which makes it all the more difficult to change it. The demand for quality lawyers dries up all too soon ! For a long,long while to come it will continue something like this:

NLSIU, NALSAR
-Gap-
NUJS
-Gap-
NLIU, NLUD, NLUJ
-Gap-
GNLU
-Gap-
Then lucknow,raipur,patiala & kochi
-Huge Gap-
The rest all, the less said the better !
Personally, beyond top six/seven, not really worth while .
guest 28 Jul 2014, 08:24
+2 -3
u shud place nujs and nlud in the same tier
Worth Your While 19 Jun 2015, 18:25
+0 -0
A legal education is worth your while. I can't understand why are people so stuck up about rankings and how if you're not the top-500, you're basically nothing.

How about this, the people with a rank worse than 500 go to one of these NLUs which supposedly aren't worth one's while, grow and better themselves over the 5 years?
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