Top 3-Year LLB Colleges in India 2026: Courses, Fees & Admission Process, Scope

Top 3-Year LLB Colleges in India 2026: Courses, Fees & Admission Process, Scope

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Swayam Gupta
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Updated on Jan 27, 2026 16:40 IST
A three-year LLB course provides a pathway for individuals to switch their professional domain and start a career in law. If you are a graduate looking to become a lawyer in India and gain essential legal knowledge, this article is for you. Here, we have listed the top 3-year LLB colleges in the country.

Are you graduated, and want to pursue law in your career? In this article, we have provided the details of the best 3-year LLB colleges in India. You will know the admission process and ranking of the law colleges. 

Top 3-Year LLB Colleges in India

Top 3-Year LLB Colleges in India

A three-year LLB course provides a pathway for individuals to switch their professional domain and start a career in law. If you are a graduate looking to become a lawyer in India and gain essential legal knowledge through a 3-year LLB course, this article is for you. Here, we have listed the top 3-year LLB colleges in India. The admission process for 3-year LLB law coll colleges has also been described here.

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The top three-year LLB colleges according to the NIRF Ranking 2025 for Law Schools are listed in this article.

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Table of contents
  • Top 3-year LLB Colleges in India
  • Three-Year LLB Admission Process
  • Top 3-Year LLB Colleges in India According to NIRF Ranking
  • Common Entrance Exam for 3-Year LLB
  • Professions to Pursue After a 3-year LLB Course

Top 3-year LLB Colleges in India

India has many law colleges that offer 3-year LLB courses, it includes NLUs, government colleges, and private colleges as well. Find the top 3-year law colleges in India based on Shiksha Rankings below:

Top 3-Year LLB Colleges in India
College Tuition Fee (Other charges excluded)
National Law School University, Bangalore 8.07 Lakh
Symbiosis Law School, Pune 9 Lakh
Alliance School of Law, Alliance University, Bangalore 9 Lakh
Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar 7.2 Lakh
Manipal University, Jaipur 2.94 Lakh
Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University 7,746 (for first year)
Amity University, Noida 8.61 Lakh

Three-Year LLB Admission Process

To get admission to a 3-year LLB course, candidates will have to meet the eligibility criteria. 

Merit-Based Admission

For merit-based admission, applicants should be graduates. The candidate with the highest marks gets preference while preparing the merit list. Refer to the information given below for the entrance exams conducted for admission to the three-year LLB program:

College Entrance Exam
National Law School University, Bangalore NLSAT
Symbiosis Law School, Pune SLS AIAT
Faculty of Law BHU CUET PG

Some top colleges accept state-level law entrance exams. Candidates should check whether the college accepts merit-based admission or admission through an entrance exam. If an entrance exam score is required, candidates will have to look for which exam is accepted by their targeted Law college.

Top 3-Year LLB Colleges in India According to NIRF Ranking

Check out the top 3-year LLB colleges in India according to their NIRF Rankings 2025. The NIRF 2026 rankings have not released yet. However, once the official NIRF ranking of this year is released will be updated here.

Top 3-year LLB Colleges and their NIRF Rankings
College  Ranking
National Law School University, Bangalore 1
Symbiosis Law School, Pune 5
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 7
Siksha 'O' Anusandhan 9
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College of Law, Andhra University 16
Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar 19
Faculty of Law, University of Lucknow 23
Banaras Hindu University 25
UPES School of Law, Dehradun 28
Manipal University, Jaipur 29

Common Entrance Exam for 3-Year LLB

There are some common entrance exams conducted for admission to 3 year LLB course. The candidates who want to get admission to a top law college for a 3-year LLB have to sit for the law entrance exams given below.

Law Entrance Exam for 3-Year LLB Course Colleges

MH CET Law

Maharashtra state law colleges
DU LLB Entrance Exam University of Delhi
BHU UET Banaras Hindu University
SLAT Symbiosis Law Schools
AP LAWCET Law colleges in Andhra Pradesh
TG LAWCET Law colleges in Telangana

Also Read: How to Become a Lawyer After 12th Commerce? 

Professions to Pursue After a 3-year LLB Course

After a 3-year LLB course, students can select which Legal profession they wish to work in based on their interests. In the law field, there are many career opportunites are open for candidates. After pursuing internships in several fields during their 3-year LLB course, a field of Law can be selected from among the following:

Patent Lawyers

Advocates

Compliance Lawyers

Corporate Lawyers

Real Estate Lawyers

Solicitors

Arbitrators

Legal Advisors, or

Law Teacher

Judges

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rapala srinivas

9 months ago

i have completed my hotelmanagement degree and I have taken full stack Java course but I dropped course iam in confused what to do next? in my mind to study LLB 3 years is it correct please suggest me a solution or idea.

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