B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) 

at NLIU Bhopal, Bhopal

No, NLIU, don’t offer admission to BA LLB (Hons) course without qualifying CLAT. Check out the table below to understand the eligibility criteria for admission to NLIU Bhopal:

For admission to BA LLB (Hons) course at NLIU Bhopal candidates have to register through CLAT portal. Registered candidates for CLAT 2025 counselling will be called by NLIU Bhopal through five provisional merit lists, each released by the Consortium of CLAT. Candidates, who have been allocated a seat in the provisional lists and applied for revision, should check the status of their seat in the CLAT provisonal lists. Those, who have been allotted a seat in the NLIU Bhopal Provisional Allotment Lists, must complete the process of exercising any one of the actions mentioned below:

1. Accept the allotted seat
2. Apply for Revise
3. Exit from the CLAT admission process

If alloted seat is accepted by the candidate. After, that the candidates need to report to NLIU Bhopal for admission. The admission confirmation requires, documents submission and fees submission by the candidates through the official portal of NLIU Bhopal. 

No, only law degree is not sufficient to practice law in India. candidates need to have Bar Council of India enrollment to become eligible for the same. Only members of BCI are eligible to appear in courts and practice law in India.
The candidates looking forward to practice law in India, are required to clear the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) that is conducted by BCI. On clearing the AIBE exam, lawyers are awarded a ‘Certificate of Practice’ which is mandatory for practising the profession as an advocate in India.

NLIU Bhopal average package data is not released. According to NLIU Bhopal Brochure 2024, the median package offered during NLIU Bhopal MCLIS placements 2023 stood at INR 9 LPA.

Further, according to NIRF report 2024, the median package offered during UG 5-year and PG 1-year placements over the past three years are presented below:

According to National Law Institute University Bhopal placement brochure 2024, the placement rate recorded during BA LLB Hons and MCLIS (Master of Cyber Law & Information Security) placements 2023 are presented below:

NLIU Bhopal offers admission to the 5-year integrated law courses based on CLAT entrance examination results, followed by counselling rounds. CLAT cutoff 2025 for round 1 is out, where the closing rank for B.Sc. LL.B (Hons)(Cyber Security) and B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) course was 821 and 458, respectively, for students belonging to the General AI category.

 For NLU Jodhpur, which also offers 5-year integrated law courses based on candidates' performance in the CLAT entrance exam, followed by the counselling process. The first round closing rank stood at 357 for the General category candidates.
Therefore, after analysing the cutoff ranks for both institutions, NLU Bhopal is on the easier side for admissions, considering its ranks went up to 821 as compared to NLU Jodhpur’s cutoff rank, which was 357.

 
Aside from cutoffs, aspirants can refer to the different parameters given below to make a better decision regarding which institution suits them better.

Refer the table below for NLIU Bhopal UG 5-year placement statistics 2023 as compared with other NULs:

The university admits around 120 candidates each year through the Common Law Admission Test UG, for the B.A. LL.B (Hons.) Course and around 60 candidates for the B.Sc. LL.B. (Hons.) [Cyber Security] Course.

The post-graduate courses offered at the university are the Masters of Law (LL.M.) degree and the Master of Cyber Law & Information Security (MCLIS) degree.