LL.M. in International Law 

at NLU Assam, Guwahati

NLU Assam offers a total of 40 seats for admission to LLM. The admission are based on CLAT score. For admission to LLM course at NLU Assam candidates have to register through CLAT portal. Registered candidates for CLAT 2024 counselling will be called by NLU Assam 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. 

NLUJAA, is ranked 28 by NIRF 2023 ranking amongst other NLUs. The NIRF 2023 was approved by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and launched by the Honourable Minister of Education on June 5 2023. This framework considers a few parameters for ranking various universities and institutions. These parameters cover:

• Teaching, Learning and Resources
• Research and Professional Practices
• Graduation Outcomes
• Outreach and Inclusivity
• Perception

NLU Assam offers LLM course with seven specialissations. The list of LLM specialisations is given below: 

• Commercial Law
• Constitutional Law
• Corporate Law
• Environmental Law
• Human Rights & International Humanitarian Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• International /International Trade Law

National Law University Assam admission to all the programmes is done online through the official website of the university. Find below the detailed admission process followed by NLU Assam for admission:

Step 1: For NLU Assam admissions to BA LLB (Hons) and LLM programme registrations are done through CLAT. Candidates must visit the official website of CNLU to apply for CLAT.  

Step 2: The registered candidates are required to appear for CLAT entrance exam for admission to BA LLB and LLM programmes. After that, candidates willing to get admission in BA LLB (Hons) and LLM programmes, have to go through the CLAT counselling process for acceptance of seats. To confirm the allotment, candidates have to accept the seat allotment, after that the allotment will get frozen.

Step 3: Candidates who will accept the allotted seat need to upload all the required documents on the official portal. After that candidates, will be required to pay the admission fee to confirm their seats within a stipulated deadline. 

The NLU Assam CLAT Cutoff 2026 was released for admission to the BA LLB (Hons) and LLM course for all categories under the Home State and the All India quota. 

According to the Round 1 closing ranks, the cutoff ranged from 2258 to 3527, with LLM course specialisations being the popular choice among participants belonging to the OBC AI quota. 

In the case of OBC HS quota, the closing cutoff fell between 10214 and 23884 in Round 1, with LLM course being popular for this quota as well. 

Students can refer to the table below to know the cutoff for both the OBC category quota. 

NLUJAA LLM admission 2024 is done through CLAT. Candidates who qualify for CLAT are required to pay fee for their respective courses, which includes various components such as Tuition Fee, Examination Fee, Security Deposit, Hostel Charges (if applicable), etc. Other than the LLM fee, candidates are required to pay a fee for CLAT application fee. For General /OBC /PWD /PIO /OCI /NRI category candidates, the application fee is INR 4,000 and for SC /ST /BPL category candidates, the application fee is INR 3,500. 

The closing rank for CLAT Fourth Provisional Allocation List for NLUJAA LLM course is 2165 for the General category students. Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) releases institute wise and course-wise CLAT Provisional Allotment lists on the official website at consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2023 for NLU admissions 2023 LLM programme. Candidates seeking admission to NLUJAA can refer to the table given below to check out the NLUJAA R4 cutoff 2023 along with the R4 cutoff ranks for 2022 to get better clarity on NLUJAA cutoff trends: 

CNLU releases the CLAT Provisional Allocation List for each category, including General, SC, ST, OBC, EWS, PwD and more for LLM course. Check out the below table to download CLAT 2022 and 2023 last round Provisional Allocation Lists for NLUJAA: