Law Entrance Exam List for 20 Best Law Colleges in India for 2015

This article first en-lists the name of the best ranking colleges for last 5+ years and than go on to give you the list of the law entrances exams to get a seat in those law colleges.

Class-XII final exam is dawning and many of the students aspires to join law as a profession. What alternatives are available to him/her? Which colleges to join and which law entrance exams he/she has to appear? This is the focus of this article - to help you youngsters in knowing the admission processes for the best law colleges in India. It will at first en-list the name of the best ranking colleges for last 5+ years and than go on to give you the list of the law entrances exams to get a seat in those colleges.

Let me start this by saying that the term “Best ranked Indian College” is always contentious, as there is no apex official authority whose ranking can be considered as absolute and final. There are a number of organisations which carries out annual survey of Indian colleges and brings out this list every year in the month of June/July. These surveys include - Outlook-MDRA College ranking, India Today-Nielsen College ranking etc.

But if you compare the ranking list, you will find that most of these law colleges appears in most of the lists, although a particular law colleges may rank one node higher or lower in a particular list compared to the others.Therefore, in preparing this blog post, I am accepting the ranking brought out by India Today-Nielsen, so that the name of law colleges can be shortlisted for this study on the Indian law colleges admission process. 

List of 20 best ranked law colleges:

In the table at right, you can find the list of last 10-years ranking of Indian law colleges. Six out of these twenty best Indian law colleges are from a hallowed group called National Law Schools/Universities (with light blue background)  – for which you need to appear for a single entrance exam – ubiquitous CLAT (Common Law Admission Test).

Let us get to know how many seats are available in each of these top-20 law colleges - so that you can get an idea about in which colleges you have more chances of getting admissions - more the number of seats, easier it would be to get a seat, specially if the ranking is towards the bottom.

Number of seats in best ranked Indian law colleges:

You can find from the table at left how many seats are available in each of these law colleges. Please keep in mind that these figures changes from year-to-year and hence the figures given here are indicative only.

Also, number of seats in these law colleges are for under-graduate programs only -  LL.B. (3 YR), B.A.LL.B. (5 YR) & B.B.A.LL.B. (5 YR). For the year you want to take admission, you have to visit the entrance exam websites of the law colleges given below to know the exact number of seats.

How to get these seats? This is the subject matter of following section on Indian law entrance exams.




Name of entrance exams/admission procedures for all these top 20 law colleges is given below.

Name of Entrance Exams/Admission process for best ranked law colleges:

CLAT (Common Law Admission Test): 
As said before, out of the list of 20 colleges given above, for the six National Law Schools/Universities there is a single  law entrance exam called CLAT for these institutes.

You can find two very exhaustive blog articles of mine on CLAT:

1.0 CLAT 2015 Notification, Application Form & Eligibility:

This tells you what is CLAT, what are the eligibility and how to apply for CLAT

2.0 CLAT 2015 Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Papers & Books:
This tells you how to prepare for CLAT.

What are the admission processes for rest of the best colleges? Let us go one-by-one.

Campus Law Centre, Delhi University:
Name of Entrance Exam: DU LL.B LL.M Entrance Test.

Symbiosis Law School (SLS)- Pune
Name of Entrance Exam: Symbiosis Entrance Test (SET).

Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University
Name of Entrance Exam: AMU Law Admission Test.
Click here to find AMU Law Admission Test Brochure.

ILS Law College, Pune

Admission process: Based on Merit (Class-XII% for 5 Year course and Graduation% for 3 Year course)

Faculty of Law, BHU
Name of Entrance Exam: All India Entrance Exam by BHU.

Amity Law School, Delhi
Name of Entrance Exam: CET by IPU.

SLCU, Christ College of Law, Bangalore
Name of Entrance Exam: Christ University Entrance Test.
Click here to find the Admission website of Christ College of Law, Bangalore

University School of Law & Legal Studies, IPU, Delhi
Name of Entrance Exam: CET by IPU.

Bharati Vidyapeeth's New Law College, Pune
Name of Entrance Exam: NLC Pune Entrance Test.
Click here to find the Admission website of New Law College, Pune

Army Institute of Law, Mohali
Name of Entrance Exam: Army Institute of Law Entrance Exam.
Click here to find the Admission website of Army Institute of Law, Mohali

Government Law College, Mumbai
Admission process: Based on Merit.
Click here to find the Admission website of Government Law College, Mumbai

Faculty of Law, University of Kolkata
Admission process: Based on Merit.
Click here to find the Admission website of Faculty of Law, University of Kolkata

University College of Law, Osmania University
Name of Entrance Exam: LAWCET

Institute of Law, Kurukshetra University
Name of Entrance Exam: CET

Above information has been presented to lawyer aspirants, so that at one place they gets all the information on how to get admission in the best law college in India. For preparation of law entrance exams, I am going to post a subsequent blog article titled: Law (LLB) Entrance Exam 2015 Pattern, Papers, Books & Websites to help with the prep materials. So please visit me again!

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