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Where Your Score Takes You

CLAT (UG) is the single common entrance test for India's National Law Universities (NLUs) — state-run law schools. One exam gives you one all-India rank, and a centralised counselling round lets you list every NLU you're interested in, in your own order of preference. Beyond the NLUs, many private and affiliate colleges also accept your CLAT score directly.

How the admission system works

You don't apply to individual colleges. You take one exam, get one all-India rank, and go through centralised counselling: rank your preferred NLUs, and seats are offered across rounds based on your rank, category, and each university's home-state quota. List every NLU you'd genuinely attend — leaving one off can cost you a seat you'd otherwise have cleared.

What we drill in Practice

The NLU network

There are roughly two dozen NLUs admitting through CLAT, across most states. A few anchor most wishlists:

  • NLSIU Bengaluru — the first NLU (1987) and consistently the most sought-after seat
  • NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
  • WBNUJS, Kolkata
  • NLU Jodhpur, GNLU Gandhinagar, and other well-established names
  • Note: NLU Delhi historically runs its own exam (AILET), not CLAT — verify current status before assuming

What decides which college you get

  • Your all-India CLAT rank is the primary lever — entirely a function of exam-day performance.
  • Category and each NLU's home-state quota materially shift the effective cutoff.
  • The rank-to-college mapping shifts every year with applicants and seats — a past cutoff is a reference point, never a promise.