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NLU Kochi Admission 2024: Application Process, Eligibility, Dates & Fee

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NUALS Kochi Admission Process 2024

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Q:   Can I join The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi directly?

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To join The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) in Kochi, you typically need to go through a specific admission process. NUALS conducts an entrance examination called the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for admission to its undergraduate and postgraduate law programs. CLAT is a national-level entrance exam that evaluates candidates' aptitude and knowledge in various areas of law. It is important to note that direct admission without appearing for the CLAT exam may not be possible for most candidates. It is recommended to visit the official website of NUALS or contact the university directly for detailed information on the admission process and eligibility criteria

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Q:   What is NUALS Kochi cutoff 2024?

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NLU Kochi (NUALS) cutoff 2024 for Round 1 has been released for B.A. LL.B. (Hons) and LL.M. in Constitutional and Administrative Law courses. Tabulated below are the opening and closing ranks for General candidates belonging to All india Quota: 

CourseR1 Opening RankR1 Closing Rank 
LL.M. in Constitutional and Administrative Law4861117
B.A. LL.B. (Hons)2311070

  

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Q:   Are admissions at The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi entrance-based or merit-based?

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Admissions at The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi are primarily entrance-based. NUALS conducts the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), a national-level entrance examination, for admission to its undergraduate and postgraduate law programs. The CLAT exam evaluates candidates' aptitude and knowledge in various areas of law. The admissions process at NUALS is competitive, and candidates are selected based on their performance in the CLAT exam, followed by counseling and document verification. However, it is important to note that some seats may also be reserved for specific categories as per government regulations.

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Q:   What entrance exam scores are accepted by The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi for admission?

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The valid CLAT entrance exam score is accepted by the National University of Advance Legal Studies, Kochi, for admission.

The university offers BA, LLB, LLM, PG Diploma, and Ph.D. courses. Admission to NUALS is done on the basis of CLAT scores in UG and PG courses.

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NUALS Application Process 2024

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Q:   When will CLAT 2025 application form be released?

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The online application form of CLAT 2025 was released on July 15, 2024. The Consortium provided more then 2 months time to candidates to fill the CLAT 2025 application form. The application form of CLAT 2025 was made available at consortiumofnlus.ac.in, and candidates could fill a single application form for all participating NLUs until the October 22. Know more about CLAT 2025 application process here.

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Q:   What to do if I forget the password for CLAT Login?

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If you forget the password for your CLAT Login, you can reset it by following the below-mentioned steps: Visit the official website of the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs), the organizing body of CLAT. Click on the 'Login' button on the homepage. Click on the 'Forgot Password' link on the login page. Enter your registered email id or mobile number.

You will receive a link on your registered email id or mobile number to reset your password. Click on the link and follow the instructions to reset your password. Alternatively, you can also reset your password by answering your security question, which you would have set during the registration process. If you are still unable to reset your password, you can contact the CLAT helpdesk or the Consortium of NLUs for further assistance.

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NLU Kochi
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3.7/5
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Placement Review IconPlacements3.3
Infrastructure Review IconInfrastructure3.6
Faculty Review IconFaculty & Course4.1
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B.A. LL.B. (Hons) - Batch of 2026
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Hostel is really good and the campus culture is the best.
Placements: 50 per cent of the batch gets placed. the highest package was 13 Lacs per annum. Ernst and young and ICICI were the top recruiters. Many people do not sit for placements but off campus is really good. Opportunities are in abundance in the college. Our alumni base is large spread all over the country.
Infrastructure: Food in the mess is really good with a lot of variety. The canteen would be operational soon accommodation is really good transport is a problem you will find decent hotels and restaurants nearby. Sports facilities are really good the sports committee is really active.
Faculty: The faculty is good. They will help you not only as a teacher but as mentor as well. Most of them are PhD and we'll verse in their subjects. The curriculum teaches you 60 dynamic subjects and corporate culture is really nice.
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B.A. LL.B. (Hons) - Batch of 2023
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NUALS has adequate facilities, faculty and placements.
Placements: The college does have a placement cell, but its efficiency is quite limited, and the campus placements are pretty low. Federal Bank, ICICI Bank, and a few law firms in Kochi are the regular recruiters. That being said, students from NUALS do get PPOs at reputed law firms, including the Big 6, like Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM), Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM), Khaitan & Co., Trilegal etc. They join the firms as trainee associates and legal officers, mostly dealing with due diligence and consultation at the banks. Some students even excel their freelance works. Some pursue higher studies in the US, UK and reputed colleges within India. NUALS has had a Rhodes Scholar in the past as well. Around 60% of the students do bag a good job at the end of their course. The highest package offered was around 20 Lacs per annum in 2019, by ICICI Bank. A sizeable number of students from the remaining opted for litigation and did great at that.
Infrastructure: The college has an above-average infrastructure and is rapidly developing. The new VC, Dr K.C Sunny, has a keen focus on the same. The college currently has a centrally air-conditioned seminar hall, a huge auditorium, an A-V media room, which is usually used for international seminars and an open-air theatre (though that is largely abandoned as of now), a football ground that also doubles up as the cricket ground, and a basketball court. Only basic sports facilities are available. There are elevators in the academic block, admin block, and the girls' hostel (4 floors), but the boys' hostel does not as it is a 3-floor building. A new moot court hall was built in 2019. The college has a decent Wi-Fi facility which offers great speed when available, but it often gets disrupted. Classrooms are spacious enough and have a mic and adequate speakers. There are projectors in each classroom. However, there is no AC in the classes, and Kerala summers can be quite hot and humid. The library is adequate with a decent collection of books of all subjects, and new books are being added every subsequent year. There is a dedicated A/C study room as well within the library. The hostel rooms are mostly shared by 3 students. The rooms in the main hostels are quite spacious. The annex building rooms though, which are usually allotted to fresher boys, are very crammed and get really hot and suffocating in summers. There has been news that those are going to be converted to guest rooms and all students are going to be shifted to the main hostel. There is a new hostel building under construction. Each student is given a table, chair, almirah and bed. There is an attached washroom in each room. The room and washroom are cleaned twice a week. Laundry service is also available twice a week at a reasonable charge. The hostel curfew timing is 11 pm, and the campus curfew is at 9 pm. There is no room curfew. The hostel matrons in the girls' hostel do indulge in a lot of moral policing. The food in the hostel mess is comparatively very good and includes vegetarian and non-vegetarian in the menu. The menu is decided by the students' mess committee itself, and thus, there is a good mix of South Indian and North Indian food in the menu. The menu is revised every now and then. Milk and egg are available on demand. The canteen is contract-based, and therefore, the food quality depends on who runs it in a given year. The canteen has been good and bad in different years. There are only minimal
Faculty: The faculty is a mixed bag. Half of them are really well qualified and take a keen interest in teaching, while the remaining are pretty bad and unqualified. There indeed is a shortage of good professors, and the university is making do with interim contractual lecturers, who aren't well qualified or knowledgeable enough. But the permanent faculty are up to date and engage with the students quite well. The college is adopting new and intuitive pedagogical methods in order to make the learning experience more fun and fruitful. The curriculum is well distributed, but I would say that NUALS doesn't focus on commercial law well enough. Company law for instance, which is the core subject for corporate law, is crammed into one single semester, which can be quite too much. However, the elective subjects are well-curated and make up for it. Hence, if the student is self-aware and knows which field to pursue, then the student can pick his/her subjects of interest in the 4th and 5th years and make the best out of it. The compulsory internships after each semester also encourage the students to gain practical knowledge on their subject of interest.
Other: I chose this course with my passion in law and the opportunity it gives me to contribute to society on a direct and day-to-day basis. The course at NUALS is mostly well designed to equip one with the basic knowledge of all fields of law. I wish the college had a better crafted commercial law programme though. The peer is also great, and you get to learn a lot through active discourse and debate with each other. The college hosts a multitude of seminars, webinars, colloquiums, panel discussions, etc., involving eminent personalities of respective subjects. Other than that, the college hosts an annual fest called NAALAM, which attracts students mostly from Kerala and also some colleges from outside the state for various events such as fashion show, group dance, acting, quizzing, and such. NAALAM, since 2018, is popular as an indigenous hip-hop incubator. The college is known for its mooting and quizzing culture. We have had many students winning various international moots, including Stetson Environmental law moot, FDI Moot, Manfred Lachs, ICC Moot etc. Students also consistently win in the reputed national moots such as the Christ Moot, B.R. Sawhney Moot, GNLU International Trade Law Moot, RMLNLU Media Moot and Jamia Milia Islamia moot among others. The college hosts the annual NUALS Maritime Law Moot. Students from NUALS have won the regional rounds of the reputed TATA Crucibles Campus Quiz in the past. The college also hosts an annual Parliamentary Debate competition in British Parliamentary Debate format with a huge pool of prizes and attracts teams from all over India. The university publishes various law journals, including the annual flagship journal of NUALS, the NUALS law journal. Other recurring publications from NUALS include the NUALS IP Law Review, NUALS IBC Newsletter, NUALS IP Blog, NUALS Restructuring and Insolvency as Journal, NUALS Constitutional Studies Review, NUALS Constitutional Studies Blog, NUALS Environmental Law Blog and NUALS Securities Newsletter among others. The campus crowd is vibrant and very interactive. Students are very cooperative, and one gets all the help and guidance needed from seniors. There is a good inter-batch relationship. The students are mostly inclusive, and one can find students of political, religious and ideological beliefs. There exists an overall positive outlook towards the LGBTQ+ community as well, and many identify themselves as allies as well. There is a NUALS Queer Collective page on Instagram as wel
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B.A. LL.B. (Hons) - Batch of 2021
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Review of The National University of Advanced Legal Studies.
Placements: Placements in our college are still at a growing stage. The number of students placed is growing from only a handful of students. Three years ago there were around 23 students who got placed from a batch of 120. Banks and firms have arrangements with the Placement Cell, which is still mostly student-run for the time being. The next step is to create a proper placement body with staff.
Infrastructure: There are spacious hostels with triple-occupancy rooms and attached bathrooms with showers. Mess is inside the respective hostels and relatively is one of the best messes around with the respect to quality of food served and it is student controlled. Library is well-equipped with many books and resources. It has air-conditioned & non-air-conditioned areas. There were basketball courts, football ground, cricket training pitch, volleyball court, table tennis room, and a gym. The canteen provides options for food, and there were more options just 50 meters outside, as well as there were good options from delivery apps.
Faculty: Almost all the permanent faculty members have a doctorate. They are cooperating and very helpful. The fourth-year provides elective subjects for those interested in criminal law, corporate law, or constitutional law, as their honors. A new system of pedagogy has been introduced to make the learning experience more student-engaging.
Other: Every batch conducts a particular annual event such as the arts day competition festival, intercollegiate competition fest, parliamentary debate, MUN, etc. There was a thriving presence of co-curricular and arts programs every week. There were regular mooters and debaters, and the college provides opportunities to compete outside. The course is perfect for a law student who wishes to explore their options and decide their specialization as well as stay connected to their co-curricular talents and hobbies.
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Anand SivanVerified Icon
B.A. LL.B. (Hons) - Batch of 2024
3.6
3Placements4Infrastructure4Faculty3Crowd & Campus Life4Value for Money
It is a very good campus with good infrastructure and facilities but average campus placements.
Placements: Almost 20% of the students of the present final year batch got placed. The highest salary package offered is 13 LPA, the lowest salary package offered is 7 LPA and the average salary package offered is 10 LPA. Companies like Khaitan & Co. Thomson Reuters and Federal Bank are the top recruiters of our college. Students are offered with roles like legal associate and junior associate. Almost 100% of the students got an internship from our course in different prestigious companies and law firms as well as with eminent lawyers and judges.
Infrastructure: We have free campus Wi-Fi. They provide well-maintained classrooms with projector and a huge and well-maintained library with a huge collection of books. We also have access to different online resources such as Manupatra, SCC Online, etc. Mess food is good, and the quality of the food served is also good. The hostel is neat and tidy, which are cleaned by the staffs on a regular basis.
Faculty: The course curriculum is very much relevant, and there is not much stress on students in academics. Teachers here are well-qualified with PhD and doctorates. They are also very friendly with the students. Some faculty members are not up to to the mark and are biased like any other universities.
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B.A. LL.B. (Hons) - Batch of 2017
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Other: NUALS is one the 16 national law universities in India. Admission to the university is on the basis of Common Law Admission Test. We have a good faculty team overall, with some of them being excellent. We also have a sitting High Court judge as a faculty for the Law of Civil Procedure. There does, however, exist some faculty members that are not so at par with the rest. There exists a brilliant mooting culture in the university, which is spearheaded by the Moot Court society that conducts an internal moot court the beginning of every year. The debate society and forum help students to participate in internal as well as external debates. There are about 14 centers of learning which undertake research on various specialized areas of law and conduct seminars, bring out their journals, organize legal aid clinics etc. The cultural activities in the campus are many, including arts and sports days, hostel day and an inter college arts fest we host every year called NAALAM. The hostels have only 3-person rooms and some students are now housed in a dormitory too. However, the food served in the hostel mess is of good quality.
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Akshay ShahVerified Icon
B.A. LL.B. (Hons) - Batch of 2018
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4Placements3Infrastructure5Faculty4Crowd & Campus Life3Value for Money
Other: With alumni working in diverse areas and relaxed course structure, it presents the students with an excellent opportunity to excel in areas which are different from the traditional practice areas. The best part I would say is the faculty here. There are also Centers for Research which organize seminars on contemporary topics of law. However, one must not come to this college hoping success will be a spoon-fed.
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NUALS Kochi Admission FAQs 2024

Q:   Can I get into The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi with 70% in CLAT?

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We are not exactly sure about that, because cuttoff varies every year. But you must score 80 to 85% or above in CLAT to get into the National University of Advance Legal Studies, Kochi.

 it is one of the most demanding universities, many candidates want to get admitted, so every year the cutoff goes high. but it's happening every year.

The CLAT closing rank for general category candidates of NUALS, Kochi, is given below.

Course -LL.M. in Constitutional and Administrative Law :-

2021:-944

2022:-1325

2023:-1799

B.A. LL.B. (Hons):-

2021:-         |        2022 :-   |       2023:-

1144.         |       1250  |        1461

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Q:   What is NLU Kochi cutoff when compared to other NLUs?

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The Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) released CLAT 2023 Allotment Lists for admission to BA LLB (Hons) course offered at various NLUs. The closing rank for NLU Kochi  was 1461 after the R5 results. The table below shows a comparative analysis of CLAT 2023 Fifth Provisional Allotment List closing ranks for two consecutive years for top NLU, including NLU Kochi:

BA LLB (Hons) Top NLUs Comparison – CLAT Fifth Provisional Allotment List Closing Ranks

Top NLUs

2022

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NLU Kochi12501461
DSNLU Visakhapatnam15892080
NALSAR Hyderabad155177
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Q:   Which is the top course of The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi?

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The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi is known for offering various prestigious law courses. Among them, the LL.M. (Master of Laws) programme is often considered one of the top courses at NUALS. The LL.M. programme at NUALS is designed to provide advanced legal education and specialisation in different areas of law. It offers students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of legal principles, engage in research, and develop expertise in a specific field of law. The LL.M. programme at NUALS attracts students from across the country and is highly regarded for its academic rigor and quality faculty

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Q:   What rank is required for NUALS Kochi?

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The opening or minimum rank required for NUALS Kochi Fifth Provisional Allotment List is 1461 for BA LLB (Hons) and is 1799 for LLM for General Category students under Vertical Reservation. CLAT Fifth Provisional Allotment list has been released by the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) for NLU Kochi admission to BBA LLB and LLM courses. Candidates can refer to the table given below to check out the NLU Kochi cutoff 2023 for BA LLB (Hons) and LLM courses. The details mentioned below is the last round closing rank for the General All India category students: 

Course2023
LL.M. in Constitutional and Administrative Law1799
B.A. LL.B. (Hons)1461

 

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Q:   How costly is The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi?

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The cost of studying at The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) in Kochi, Kerala, India varies depending on the programme you choose. The university offers BA LLB, LLM, PG Diploma, Ph.D, and certificate programs under its curriculum. The fees for the BA LLB (Hons) programme is INR 1,89,760 per year. The fees for the LLM programme is INR 1,63,000 per year. The total fees for the NRI sponsored candidates is INR 20,21,100/- 

Please note that the fees mentioned above are subject to change and may not include additional expenses such as accommodation, food, and transportation. It’s advisable to check the official website of the institutions.

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Q:   Is The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi the best in Kochi?

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The National University of Advance Legal Studies, Kochi, is one of the best and top state universities in Kerala, having been founded in 2005. .The NLU is recognised by the UGC and is also a member of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU). They provide the best facilities and offer several programmes specialising in UG, PG, and PhD programmes.

NUALS is ranked 26th out of 30 law colleges in India by NIRF

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Q:   What is NLU Kochi cutoff 2024 for other than General category?

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Apart from the General category, CNLU has released CLAT cutoff 2024 for R1 for NLU Kochi for PwD category. Tabulated below are the closing ranks for NLU Kochi cutoff 2024 for PwD ategory: 

Category R1 Closing Rank 
LL.M. in Constitutional and Administrative Law10798
B.A. LL.B. (Hons)28315
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Answered 6 months ago

The Consortium of National Law Universities has announced the admissions lists for the CLAT 2024 programme. The CLAT Fifth Round closing ranks for the NLU Kochi for its flagship LLM programme have been released recently.

According to the NLU Kochi CLAT cutoff 2024, the Last Round for LL.M. in Constit

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Yatendra Kumar

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Answered 9 months ago

As of today, the official cutoffs for admission to the B.A. LL.B. (Hons) programme at The National University of Advanced Legal Studes (NUALS), Kochi: for the 2024 academic year hasn't been re.leased yet.. The cutoffs are typically announced after the application process closes and the seat allotmen

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Priyanka Shah

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Answered 9 months ago

Te eligibility for admission to the B.A. LL.B. (Hons) programme at The National University of Advanced Legal Studies is:

Educational Qualification:

You must have passed the Higher Secondary School Certificate (10+2) examination or an equivalent examination from a recognised board.

Minimum Marks:

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Priyanka Shah

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Answered 9 months ago

Yes, pursuing a B.A. LL.B. (Hons). at The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi can be considered expensive compared to some other law schools in I.ndia... The annual tuition fee for the B.A. LL.B. (Hons) programme at NUALS is around INR 1,25,000.. This translates to roughly I

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Priyanka Shah

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The B.A. LL.B. (Hons) placements at The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi are generally considered to be above average. 

Placement Statistics:

  • While official placement reports for the latest batch (2023) might not be available yet (as of March 7, 2024), we can look at past d

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