There are 27 NLUs in India at present. Some of the top NLUs are- National Law University Delhi (NLU Delhi), NLSIU Bangalore, NALSAR Hyderabad and GNLU Gandhinagar.

NLU Delhi does not consider CLAT results for admissions. It conducts its own All India Law Entrance Test (AILET). 25 NLUs offer admissions based on CLAT results. NLU Meghalaya also does not conduct its admissions based on CLAT. Furthermore, NLU Delhi is not a part of the Consortium of NLUs. 

Dr. Ranbir Singh, the founder of NLU Delhi, gave out a reason in 2012, stating that one of the reasons was that NLU Delhi would be CLAT's 13th Law School. Consequently, it would be the 13th pick when students filled out their choices. There are some financial and administrative concerns as well that have kept NLU Delhi from accepting CLAT results for admissions. 

The Consortium of NLUs administers the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), which is a national-level admission test for UG and PG law courses. The CLAT exam is conducted every year in an offline, pen-and-paper mode. The CLAT scores are taken into account for admissions to NLUs and other law schools in India, at the UG and PG level.

For admission into one of the top 10 NLUs, a general candidate must score 80-90 marks in CLAT. The cut-offs for Tier-2 and Tier-3 NLUs are lower. When taking into account past years’ cut-offs in terms of rank, the gap in the cut-offs of top 5-6 NLUs is not as great as it first appears.

Here are the CLAT 2024 Cutoff Ranks for UG admissions at some of the top NLUs (Fourth Allotment List):

I hope this will give you an idea of the rank required in CLAT UG for admissions into some of the top NLUs.

CLAT (The Common Law Admission Test) is a centralised national-level entrance exam for admissions into most of the NLUs (except NLU Delhi and NLU Meghalaya). Each year, plenty of students take this exam for admission into some of the top law schools in India. Majority of top ranked privately-funded and self-funded law schools also conduct their admissions based on the candidates’ CLAT scores. 

I have listed down the detailed number of registered and appeared candidates for CLAT 2024 UG and PG exams:

The date for CLAT 2025 has been officially announced by the Consortium of NLUs. CLAT 2025 is scheduled to be held on 1st December 2024, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

The registration for CLAT 2025 has already begun from 15th July, 2024. The form is available online at consortiumofnlus.ac.in .The last date to apply for CLAT 2025 is 15th October, 2024.

The term CLAT stands for- “Common Law Admission Test”. For admission to 25 national law universities in India, candidates are required to clear a centralised national-level entrance exam, which is CLAT. 

CLAT scores are also used by majority privately-funded and self-funded law schools in India for admission to their law programs. Other than that, the scores obtained in the CLAT Postgraduate exam are used by Indian public sector businesses to select candidates for their legal positions. These companies include Coal India, ONGC, BHEL, the Indian Steel Authority, Oil India, among others. 

CLAT UG is conducted for admissions to the 5-year integrated LLB programs at the UG level, while CLAT PG is conducted for admissions to the 1-year LLM program.