B.Sc. LL.B

Yes, to make a career in law or say practice in the court of law, it is mandatory to appear and qualify for AIBE, conducted by the Bar Council of India. Hence those candidates who wish to build a career in the field of litigation and start practising across various courts in India must appear for AIBE and procure the certificate in order to be eligible for advocacy. 

Yes, there are many colleges offering BSc LLB courses on the basis of CLAT scores. Some of the colleges are: 

• GNLU Gandhinagar
• WBNUJS, Kolkata
• Adamas University
• JECRC University
• National Forensic Sciences University

Among the various law colleges in Uttar Pradesh which offer BSc LLB courses, the popular ones are as follows:

• Juris Law College
• Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan Degree College
• Shree Mahaveer Ji Law College
• Krishna Institute of Law
• Greater Noida College of Law

For admissions to BSc LLB degree, candidates can prepare for various law entrance examinations simultaneously since the syllabus for these examinations overlap. The top entrance examinations are:

• AILET
• LSAT India
• MHCET Law
• TS LAWCET

Both the degrees i.e. an LLB after a BSc course and a five-year integrated LLB degree are the better options. However, it depends on the qualifications and interests of the candidates as well. If the candidate has just passed the class 12 examination, then he/ she should prefer a five-year integrated LLB course. Whereas, candidates who want to study Bachelor of Science first then their only option would be an LLB degree.

In the curriculum of the BSc LLB course, candidates can also pursue Honours in their final year in the following subjects:

• Business Law
• Criminal Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• Constitutional law
• Human Rights and International Law

The major differences between a BSc LLB and an LLB degree after completing a BSc course are course duration, syllabus and separate degrees and certificates. The differences could be understood from the table below:

• Assam University - 5-year BA LLB.
• Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University - 5-year BBA LLB.
• Banaras Hindu University (BHU) - 5-year BA LLB.
• Central University of Kashmir - 5-year BA LLB.
• Central University of South Bihar - 5-year BA LLB.

For the UG courses, the GNLU Gandhinagar CLAT cutoff 2023 was 2378 for the general category, 1193 for EWS, 5613 for SC, 10837 for ST, 1852 for OBC and 15666 for PwD category students.However, based on the cutoff trends provided, candidates seeking admission to the BA LLB (Hons) course at GNLU Gandhinagar needed to secure a rank between 400 and 470 for admission. The last round closing rank for BA LLB (Hons) stood at 462 for the General All India category students in 2023