TNNLU Ph.D. Courses & Fees 2026

The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) is expected to release the CLAT Notification 2026 anytime soon. The CLAT 2026 Application Process is likely to begin in the next few days. Exam Date: December 14, 2025 (tentative). Only students who fill out the application form as well as, pay the fee are issued admit cards to appear for CLAT exam. Students can log in using their registered mobile number and password to update their preferences in CLAT application form. 

Conducted in pen-and-paper mode, candidates have to attempt questions from English, Current Affairs and GK, Legal Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Mathematics for UG course, and from Constitutional Law, and other law subjects like Jurisprudence, Torts, IPC, CrPC, CPC, Family Law, and IPR. For admission 2024 at TNNLU Tiruchirappalli, the exam is scheduled for Dec 3, 2023.

Candidates who are willing to get into TNNLU Tiruchirappalli for the one-year LLM or five-year LLB course must specific the desired course in the application form.

No, you cannot join TNNLU directly. Admission to TNNLU for undergraduate law courses like the 5-year Integrated Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) is done through the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) . Candidates must apply and register themselves for the CLAT examination. While registering, candidates must enter Tamil Nadu National Law School under their preferences in order to be considered for admission

Tamil Nadu National Law University offers the following courses to candidates:-

• LLM
• BA LLB (Hons)
• BCom LLB
• PhD, etc. 

Yes, CLAT is compulsory for admission in Tamil Nadu National Law University (TNNLU), Tiruchirappalli. It is the entrance examination conducted by consortium of NLUs for UG and PG courses. All 21 NLU except NLU Delhi take admission by way of CLAT scores in both PG and UG courses.