NLU Jabalpur: Courses, Fees, Admission 2025, Placement

No, you can't get direct admission to the LLM programme at Dharmashastra National Law University (DNLU). Instead, you need to qualify for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) and the university will select candidates based on their performance in the exam. The university releases the list of selected candidates on the CLAT Consortium portal. 

Here are the steps in the admission process:

• Upload the required documents on the CLAT Consortium website
• Register and attend the CLAT counseling process
• The university will shortlist candidates based on their CLAT performance
• The university will release the list of selected candidates on the CLAT Consortium portal
• The candidate will attend a document verification and pay the fee 

To be eligible for the LLM program, you need to have passed your Higher Secondary Examinations from a recognised board. You also need to have a three-year LLB degree or a five-year BA LLB/BSc LLB/BCA LLB degree with 50 to 60 percent marks from a reputable university. 

The application fee is INR 3,000 for general category candidates and INR 1,500 for SC/ST candidates. 

For admission in the courses for the year 2024, the start date for filling the application form  for CLAT exam  was 1st july,2023 and the last date was 3rd nov,2023.

The registration date for counseling through CLAT score was from 11th December to 20th December.

So, the last date of counselling was on 20th dec 2023 and the first round of counselling started from the 26th of December.

According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), National Law University Jabalpur is ranked 22.

It is one of the newly established college but had developed at a very rapid pace over the years and the ranking justify this.

So to get admission in the courses you need a good CLAT score and also have to clear interviews for the PhD courses and other PG courses.

Yes you can get admission to various UG and PG law courses on the basis of your score in the CLAT exam.

The admissions to various courses have reservations criteria where 50 per cent of the seats are reserved for the Madhya Pradesh domicile students and rest 50 per cent for the others.

Thus you need a valid CLAT score to get admission in the institute in certain courses.

Analysing DNLU cutoff 2023, the last round closing ranks for LLM it was 2815 for the General - All India category students. Going as per the last three-year DNLU CLAT trends analysis, LLM closed at 2815 in 2023 and1832 in 2022. Analysing the round-wise comparison, DNLU closing ranks were increasing for all BA LLB (Hons) and LLM courses after Round 1. Tabulated below is the round-wise DNLU cutoff 2023: