Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University

Students pursuing a course from the Faculty of Law are open to scholarships. All the blind students receive an amount of INR 5,000 per annum per head as financial assistance (to a maximum of 20 blind students). Students must meet the criteria to avail the scholarship benefits.

Yes Faculty of Law, BHU accepts CUET-PG score for admission to LLB (Hons) programme. Besides, candidates must also fulfil the eligibility requirements for LLB (Hons) admission. Aspirants must pass BA/ BSc/ BCom./ Shastri with a minimum of 50% aggregate to apply for Faculty of BHU, LLB (Hons) programme. Selected candidates are further called for paying the course fee to confirm their seat in the university.

After completing LLM from University of Calcutta, Faculty of Law, the candidates can find jobs in both public and private sectors. The degree holders can work as legal advisors in government departments on important policy and legislative issues or as government policy analysts, analysing legal issues and assisting in developing public policy. There are jobs in government sector as well for LLM degree holders. The PG degree holders can work as a public prosecutor, civil judge, and legal associate in various government departments.

Read more about career scopes after LLM to know the career prospects.

The university has 42 seats for the LLM course. Faculty of Law, CU LLM seat allotment process is carried out through e-counselling. The seats are allotted based on the applicants scores in the CULET-UG examination. It must be noted that the mentioned seat intake is as per the official website/sanctioning body. It is subject to changes and hence, is indicative.

The admission to the LLM programme is done on the basis of applicants scores in the Calcutta University Law Entrance Test (CULET-UG) scores. Candidates seeking admission are thus required to register and apply to take the test. Before filling out the form, aspirants must check out the eligibility requirements. Candidates who get shortlisted based on exam score have to participate in the e-counselling round. In this round, the seat allotment is done followed by which the fee payment can be done for admission confirmation.

In order to submit the application form successfully, candidates are required to pay the application fee amount. Faculty of Law, University of Calcutta LLM application fee is INR 500 for the general and EWS category candidates. Additionally, the fee is INR 250 for candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B/PWD categories. The course fee can be paid via the provided bill desk link.

For admission to LLM course at Calcutta University Faculty of Law, the aspirants should have passed a valid law programme. Hence, candidates with a valid LLB/BA LLB or equivalent degree passed with required minimum aggregate are eligible for admission. Moreover, the qualifying exam should have been passed from a recognised university. Candidates must also hold the relevant documents/pass certificates for verification of documents.

No, the University of Calcutta may not admit candidates without a valid score of CULET-UG. Hence, the aspirants must take the entrance exam and secure a good score in it. Apart from this, the aspirants must fulfil the course-specific eligibility requirements, i.e., LLB/BA LLB or equivalent degree pass with the required minimum aggregate.