Law

Among the major law schools in Mumbai are Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, NMIMS, Government Law College, and Siddharth College of Law. The law schools in Mumbai provide a wide range of programmes, including LLB, BA LLB, BLS LLB, Certificate, LLM, Postgraduate Diploma, and many others. The Mumbai law programme offers full-time, part-time, online, and distance/correspondence study options.

No, studying for the CLAT is not required for the LLB. The SLAT, AILET, JMI BA LLB, and LSAT are other test student can appear for. Candidates can take this exam if they want to enrol in prestigious NLUs because NLUs only recognise CLAT scores. The Consortium of NLUs administers the Common Law Admission Test (or CLAT) on a nationwide basis for admission to 5-year integrated LLB (UG) and 1-year LLM (PG) programmes. Candidates must attempt questions from English, Current Affairs and GK, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Mathematics for UG course in the offline, pen-and-paper format of the exam.

Law is regarded as one of the most prestigious degree courses after the 12th. In India, students can take up a legal degree once they've completed a graduation degree (UG) in almost any discipline. Also, aspirants can pursue law courses after 12th arts, commerce and Science as well. Among top 10 law colleges in Mumbai, some of them are:

• Shree LR Tiwari College of Law
• KC Law College
• NMIMS Deemed to be University

Mumbai is home to about 96 best Law colleges. Among them, 41 colleges are private, 6 colleges are owned by the public/government, and public-private organisations own 4 colleges. Tabulated below the list of top Mumbai law colleges along with their total tuition fee:

After completing law school, there are other career options besides becoming a lawyer. Law graduates are in high demand across all industries and job profiles due to the expansion of the legal profession. The table below shows the job profiles offered to graduates from Law colleges in Mumbai: 

The average package for Law courses has not been released. However, the median package is disclosed. For BA LLB and LLM, the median package has improved year-on-year from 2020 to 2022. Tabulated below are the Faculty of Law Aligarh Muslim University placement package trends for detailed analysis:

NOTE: The above salary details are fetched from the NIRF report 2023.

The highest package offered to the BA LLB batch in recent placements has not been released yet. However, the median package offered during 2022 placements is available in the NIRF report 2023. During 2022 placements, the median package for BA LLB stood at INR 12.30 LPA. Earlier, the median package offered during 2021 placements was INR 10.20 LPA. From 2020 to 2022, an improving trend was observed in the BA LLB median package. Take a look at the Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University placement package trends from the table below: