BA LLB admissions 2020-21: Top institutions offering 3-year, 5-year law degrees

NEW DELHI: A degree in law is one of the most popular career choices in India since pre-Independence era. The students have a wide variety of options to choose their area of specialisation including - criminal law, civil law, corporate law, environmental law etc.

The students can choose to pursue either - 3-year BA LLB Programe or 5-year integrated LLB programme. Good communication skills and capacity to convince others are some of the key skills required to become a good legal professional.
The students who have cleared 10+2 exams and wish to study law can apply for various entrance examinations conducted by individual law colleges/institutes including - Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), LSAT India - Law School Admission Test, All India Law Entrance Test (AILET), MHT CET Law etc.

Here's a list of top law colleges/schools/institutes/universities located across the country:

North

Delhi

• Faculty of Law, University of Delhi
• National Law University, Delhi
• Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia
• University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi

Uttar Pradesh

• Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow
• Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
• Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
• Amity Law School, Noida
• School of Law, Bennett University, Greater Noida

J&K

• Department of Law, Kashmir University, Srinagar
• Department of Law, Jammu University, Jammu

Rajasthan

• National Law University, Jodhpur
• Faculty of Law, Rajasthan University, Jaipur

Punjab

• Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab (Patiala)
• Army Institute of Law, Mohali
• University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh

South

Karnataka

• National Law School of India University, Bangalore
• School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore

Andhra Pradesh & Telangana

• NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
• University College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad

Kerala

• National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi
• School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi

Tamil Nadu

• Tamil Nadu National Law School, Tiruchirappalli
• Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Government Law University, Chennai
• Government Law College, Madurai
• Government Law College, Tiruchirappalli
• Government Law College, Coimbatore

East

West Bengal & Assam

• West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
• Department of Law, University of Calcutta, Kolkata
• Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur
• National Law University and Judicial Academy, Guwahati

Odisha

• National Law University Odisha, Cuttack

Bihar & Jharkhand

• Chanakya National Law University, Patna
• Patna Law College
• National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi

West

Maharashtra

• Government Law College, Mumbai
• Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai
• Department of Law, University of Mumbai
• ILS Law College, Pune
• Symbiosis Law College, Pune

Gujarat

• Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
• Baroda School of Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, MS University of Baroda, Vadodara

Goa

• VM Salgaocar Law College, Panaji (affiliated to Goa University)

Central

Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh

• National Law Institute University, Bhopal
• Department of Legal Studies and Research, Barkatullah University, Bhopal
• Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur

(Please note that this is an indicative list)