The clash of engineering (IIT) and medical (PMT) entrances, on 8 May, with CLAT 2016 pulled potential CLAT applicants away to the more popular entrances.
Marginally fewer applicants than last year are competing for more undergraduate seats this year, despite Indian Institute of Technology’s (IIT) recently hiking their fees by more than 100 per cent from the original Rs 90,000.
Several NLUs, such as GNLU Gandhinagar, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLIU Bhopal and others also charge nearly Rs 2 lakh upward (Read Legally India’s full report on NLU fees from 2015).
Prof Paramjit Jaswal, the vice chancellor of CLAT 2016 convenor RGNUL Patiala, told Legally India today that CLAT 2016, for which registration is now closed, received 45,000 applications, around 5,500 of which were from LLM candidates (“or 20 or 30 applications less or more”, he said).
This leaves around 39,500 LLB candidates competing for 2,179 seats across 18 national law universities (NLUs). That figure is marginally below last year’s 39,686 who competed for 1,700 LLB seats.
CLAT 2015 experienced the most significant bump in applications in recent years – a 20 per cent hike from 31,231 CLAT 2014 applications – but the conduct of the exam by the convenor RMLNLU Lucknow was widely perceived as a debacle, with errors in questions, marking and repeated delays in final results.
CLAT seats
| Law School | LLB intake | LLM intake |
|---|---|---|
| NLSIU | 80 | 50 |
| Nalsar | 105 | 50 |
| NLIU | 82 | 15 |
| NUJS | 115 | 42 |
| NLUJ | 115 | 115 |
| HNLU | 180 | 45 |
| GNLU | 180 | 60 |
| RMLNLU | 160 | 20 |
| RGNUL | 180 | 40 |
| CNLU | 120 | No LLM seats |
| NUALS | 120 | 40 |
| NLUO | 180 | 50 |
| NUSRL | 120 | 20 |
| NLUJAA | 60 | 10 |
| DSNLU | 132 | 12 |
| TNNLS | 200 | No LLM seats |
| MNLU | 50 | 10 |
| Total | 2179 | 579 |
Comments
Best wishes,
Prachi
Now that they got it right, not even an acknowledgement!!!
Come come Bhamarinder, at least acknowledge that Prachi was correct.
This leaves around 39,500 LLB candidates competing for 2,179 seats across 18 national law universities (NLUs). That figure is marginally below last year’s 39,686 who competed for 1,700 LLB seats.
UNQUOTE
Where is the decline??? The difference in number of aspirants is de minimis.
The number of law applicants have increased by leaps and bounds every year, this year is the first time they've actually gone down (even if just by a small number).
Therefore, the growth rate has plummeted to less than 0% from 10-20% year-on-year.
That's huge and significant, and it's not our job to act as a propaganda tool for CLAT or the law.
Best wishes
Kian
However, it is indeed unfortunate if NLUs lose potential students due to this.
Legally India: Record decline in numbers giving CLAT
LOL
"The total number of applications received for LLB (UG) is 39,468 and for LLM (PG) is 5,572."
The 45,000 figure in the top of the TOI doesn't make any sense at all and isn't mentioned again - it seems to be conflating both UG and PG applicants.
Or maybe they were confused by those who applied but didn't pay, which is what the Careers360 article mentions (though it also kind of manages to muddle things):
http://www.law.careers360.com/articles/clat-2016-applications-reach-new-high-67-693-total-registered
[quote]He added that as many as 67,693 applicants had registered for CLAT 2016 out of which 22,652 candidates did not submit their application fee. In the five-day extension window that the CLAT committee had offered, a total of 2,053 fresh candidates applied for the exam.[/quote]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/MNLU-to-start-from-August-1/articleshow/51848697.cms
Lots of local politics, no doubt and most likely an ever bigger mess going forward.