NLSIU Ranked #1 by EducationWorld | India’s Premier Government Law & Humanities Universities 2025-26
April 29, 2025
We are delighted to share that NLSIU is once again ranked India’s #1 government law and humanities university in the EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings 2025-26!
According to EW, this year’s survey involved polling by 2,100 individuals in 25 cities nationwide with knowledge of India’s higher education institutions. The respondents’ database included faculty in higher education and industry leaders.
These sample respondents rated universities they are familiar with on 10 parameters of higher education excellence given varying weightage from 100-400. The parameters include faculty competence, leadership, governance, research, placements, curriculum & pedagogy, internationalism etc.
Excerpts from the article
According to the Union law ministry, 1,721 colleges/universities — including 920 private colleges, 248 private universities, 383 government law colleges and 170 government varsities — are dispensing legal education programmes across India. Of them, the most highly reputed are the 26 National Law Universities (NLUs) promoted by Central/state governments pursuant to second-generation legal education reforms (1985) implemented by the Bar Council of India. Admission into NLUs is through the highly competitive national CLAT (Common Law Admission Test). In 2024, of the 68,786 school/college leavers who wrote CLAT, a mere 3,696 were admitted.
Since 2022, when your editors segregated government and private universities according to domain/subject specialisations, NLUs have dominated the league table of India’s best government law and humanities universities.
The 2025-26 league table is no different. Seven of the Top 10 ranks have been awarded by 2,100 EW sample respondents to NLUs with the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru (estb.1988) topping the EW league table of government law and humanities universities for the fourth year consecutively.
Read the full article here.