National Law School of India University Rankings

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#5281 of 14,131 In the World
#1921 of 5,830 In Asia
#257 of 876 In India
#20 of 59 In Karnataka
#13 of 22 In Bangalore

Quick Review

Acceptance rate
8%
Type
Non-profit
Funding
Public-private
partnership
Highest Degree
Bachelor
Website
www.nls.ac.in
Languages
English

Acceptance rate & Admissions

Acceptance Rate8%
Admissions Requirements12th year senior secondary/intermediate examination with aggregate marks of not less than 50%, or foreign equivalent
Academic CalendarJuly to May (July - September; November-January; March-May)

We've calculated the 8% acceptance rate for National Law School of India University based on the ratio of admissions to applications and other circumstantial enrollment data. Treat this information as a rough guide and not as a definitive measure of your chances of admission. Different programs may have significantly varying admissions rates.

Tuition

The tuition table for National Law School of India University gives an overview of costs but prices are approximate and subject to change and don't include accommodation, textbooks, or living expenses. The costs of programs might differ significantly for local and international students. The only source of truth for current numbers is the university's official website.

Program Duration Tuition Cost (INR)
BA LLB (Hons) 5 years 262,500 per year
LLM 1 year 180,000
MPhil 1 year 180,000
PhD 3-5 years 180,000 per year

All costs are in Indian Rupees (INR).

Programs and Degrees

The table below displays academic fields with programs and courses that lead to Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees offered by National Law School of India University.

Note that the table provides a general overview and might not cover all the specific majors available at the university. Always visit the university's website for the most up-to-date information on the programs offered.

Programs Bachelor Master Doctoral
Art & Design No No No
Biology No No No
Business No No No
Chemistry No No No
Computer Science No No No
Economics No No No
Engineering No No No
Environmental Science No No No
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Yes Yes Yes
Mathematics No No No
Medicine No No No
Physics No No No
Psychology No No No

Notable alumni

  1. Padmapriya Janakiraman

    Padmapriya Janakiraman
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    actor
    Biography

    Padmapriya Janakiraman, better known mononymously as Padmapriya, is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Malayalam films. Padmapriya made her acting debut in the Telugu film Seenu Vasanthi Lakshmi in 2004.

  2. K. Vijay Kumar

    K. Vijay Kumar
    Years
    1952-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    police officer
    Biography

    K Vijay Kumar, IPS, is a retired IPS officer. He was the chief of the Special Task Force of Tamil Nadu that was involved in the death of the Veerappan during Operation Cocoon of 2004. He had also been the senior advisor to Home Ministry for the Left Wing Extremism areas. He served as the Advisor to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir with Home, Forest, Ecology & Environment, Health & Medical Education, Youth Services & Sports, Hospitality & Protocol, Civil Aviation, Estates and Information portfolios. Currently he has joined back as senior security adviser in Ministry of Home Affairs in December 2018.

  3. Lawrence Liang

    Lawrence Liang
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Lawrence Liang is an Indian academic and lawyer. He is currently a professor of law at Ambedkar University Delhi. He is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. He is a co-founder of the Alternative Law Forum and by 2006 had emerged as a spokesperson against the politics of "intellectual property". In 2017, he received the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in recognition of his creative scholarship on law and society.

  4. Shamnad Basheer

    Shamnad Basheer
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1976-2019 (aged 43)
    Occupations
    legal scholar
    Biography

    Shamnad Basheer was an Indian legal scholar and founder of the blog SpicyIP. He was also the founder of IDIA, a trust which works on making legal education accessible for underprivileged students. Basheer was a Ministry of Human Resource Development Chaired Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the WBNUJS, Kolkata, and the Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the George Washington University Law School, and a research associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center (OIPRC). He founded several initiatives such as SpicyIP, IDIA, P-PIL and Lex Biosis. Basheer intervened in the landmark Novartis case, filed a number of other public interest litigations and took initiative to bring about changes in the IPR regime in India.

  5. Gautam Bhatia

    Gautam Bhatia
    Years
    1988-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    lawyerscholarscience fiction writeressayist
    Biography

    Gautam Bhatia is a constitutional law scholar and science fiction author from India.

  6. Shankar Krishnamurthy

    Shankar Krishnamurthy
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Occupations
    radio personality
    Biography

    Shankar Krishnamurthy is an anchor who has hosted shows inTamil and Kannada. He is also an engineer, a management consultant, and a lawyer.

  7. Sudhir Krishnaswamy

    Sudhir Krishnaswamy
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Biography

    Sudhir Krishnaswamy is an Indian academic, administrator, and civil society activist who is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and is a co-founder of the not-for-profit research trust Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR). Krishnaswamy took over as VC of NLSIU from R. Venkata Rao in September 2019. Krishnaswamy is the first alumnus of NLSIU to be appointed as the VC of the institution. On 6 May 2020, Facebook appointed him to its content oversight board. He was awarded the Infosys Prize 2022 in the Humanities category, for his insightful understanding of the Indian Constitution.

  8. Lavanya Rajamani

    Lavanya Rajamani
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    university teacherlawyerjurist
    Biography

    Lavanya Rajamani is an Indian lawyer, author and professor whose area of expertise is international climate change law, environmental law, and policy. She is currently a professor of International Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, a Yamani Fellow in Public International Law at St Peter's College, Oxford, and a visiting professor at the Centre for Policy Research.

  9. Kalyan Chakravarthy Kankanala

    Kalyan Chakravarthy Kankanala
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Kalyan Chakravarthy Kankanala is an Indian author and intellectual property attorney. He writes both non-fictional and fictional books on intellectual property and patent law. Kalyan is an Advisory Board member of the Centre for Excellence in IP and Standards at National Law School of India University.

National Law School of India University faculties and divisions

Course/Programme : Distance Education Commercial Law, Consumer Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Human Rights, Law
Course/Programme : Law Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Law, Social Studies
Course/Programme : Law Administrative Law, Civil Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Economics, English, Fiscal Law, History, Human Rights, International Law, Labour Law, Law, Political Sciences, Sociology
Course/Programme : Research Degrees Law

General information

Alternative names NLS
नैशनल लॉ स्कूल ऑफ़ इंडिया यूनिवर्सिटी
Founded 1992
Accreditation University Grants Commission
Motto Dharmo Rakshati Rakshata
Those who protect the Law are protected by the Law

Location and contacts

Address P.O. Bag 7201 Nagarbhavi
Bangalore, Karnataka, 560 072
India
City population 12,327,000

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