NLSIU Tops 2025 Law Rankings
July 15, 2025
Outlook-ICARE Rankings 2025: Top 13 Government Law Institutes | July 2025
NLSIU, Bengaluru ranked #1 in the Outlook-Indian Centre for Academic Rankings & Excellence (ICARE) Rankings 2025: Top 13 Government Law Institutes.
Parameters:
Academic & Research Excellence
Academic & Research Excellence
Industry Interface & Placement
Infrastructure & Facilities
Governance & Admissions
Diversity & Outreach
TOTAL SCORE – 885.72
THE WEEK-Hansa Research Survey 2025: India’s best colleges | June 2025
The Week Magazine ranked NLSIU, Bengaluru as the top Law College in India in its 2025 rankings. THE WEEK-Hansa Research Best Colleges Survey 2025 covered 11 disciplines—arts, sciences, commerce, engineering, medicine, dentistry, law, hotel management, fashion technology, mass communication and architecture—across 22 cities.
Parameters:
Infrastructure
Faculty
Teaching-learning process
Extracurriculars
Placement
India Today Best Colleges | June 2025
India Today ranked NLSIU Bengaluru the top law college in India in 2025.
The methodology is by India Today knowledge partner MDRA, and is designed and developed for ranking of institutions of higher education. According to India Today, “The rankings’ consistency over the years helps in comparing results with previous years. During the objective ranking of colleges, MDRA has carefully attuned 112+ attributes across each of the streams to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons of colleges. These performance indicators were clubbed into 5 broad parameters.”
Parameters:
Intake Quality & Governance
Academic Excellence
Infrastructure & Living Experience
Personality & Leadership Development
Career Progression & Placement.
MDRA has evaluated colleges based on the latest data to give more realistic, updated and accurate information. The ranking tables also give parameter-wise scores to provide deeper insights into key aspects of decision-making by various stakeholders.
Read more in this article: ‘Law | Setting the bar’
EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings | April 2025
NLSIU was ranked #1 in India in the EducationWorld Rankings 2025 in the following categories:
India’s #1 Government Law and Humanities University in the EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings for the fourth consecutive year – Read more
The Education World survey is conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Research & Forecasting (C fore estb. 2000) – a market research and opinion poll company – which interviews faculty members and professionals across the country. The rankings are based on perception scores under six parameters of higher education excellence.
Parameters:
Infrastructure
Placements
Faculty competence
Curriculum & pedagogy (digital readiness)
Faculty welfare and development
Leadership.