The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is conducted by the consortium of National Law Universities, also known as CLAT consortium. The national-level law entrance exam, CLAT is a gateway for admissions to the national law universities of India.
CLAT consortium was established in August 2017, with the aim of improving the legal education system in India and ensuring better management and coordination among all the national law universities.
Since the inception of CLAT consortium, the national-level law entrance exam has become more organised, transparent and effective. To know more about CLAT consortium, exam modalities and others, read the complete article.
What is the CLAT consortium?
To make the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) more effective and transparent and to better the legal education system in India, the national law universities came together to form a body, Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) in August 2017. Till date, all national law universities, except the National Law University Delhi, are part of the CLAT consortium.
CLAT Consortium – Contact Information
- Address: P.O. Bag 7201, Nagarbhavi,
Bangalore – 560 072 Karnataka, India - Mail ID: clat@consortiumofnlus.ac.in
- Helpline Number: 08047162020
- Official Website: www.consortiumofnlus.ac.in
What is CLAT?
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national-level law entrance exam conducted every year by the CLAT consortium. The law entrance exam is conducted for admissions to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law programs offered by National Law Universities.
Candidates must note the acceptability of CLAT is beyond national law universities as more than 50 law colleges consisting of both government and private institutions accept the CLAT scores for admissions into law courses.
CLAT consortium – Participating members
At present, there are 24 national law universities that are participating members of CLAT consortium. The names of some CLAT accepting colleges are mentioned in the table below.
List of National law universities participating in CLAT
| Name of NLUs | Seats in 5-year LLB programmes | Total LLM seats |
|---|---|---|
| NLSIU Bangalore | 240 | 100 |
| NLU Hyderabad | 132 | 66 |
| NLU Jodhpur | 104 | 50 |
| NUJS Kolkata | 132 | 100 |
| GNLU Gandhinagar | 172 | 57 |
| RGNUL Patiala | 180 | 60 |
| NLU Lucknow | 169 | 24 |
| NLU Odisha, Cuttack | 180 | 44 |
| NLU Assam, Guwahati | 60 | 60 |
| NLIU Bhopal | 120 | 60 |
| CNLU Patna | 138 | – |
| NLU Kochi | 120 | 50 |
| NLU Ranchi | 120 | 40 |
| NLU Visakhapatnam | 138 | 69 |
| NLU Trichy | 120 | 60 |
| MNLU Mumbai | 150 | 50 |
| MNLU Nagpur | 240 | 45 |
| MNLU Aurangabad | 60 | 60 |
| NLU Shimla | 180 | 80 |
| NLU Jabalpur | 120 | 50 |
| HNLU Raipur | 180 | 90 |
| Dr B.R. Ambedkar National Law University | 120 | – |
| GNLU Silvassa | 66 | 33 |
| NLUT Agartala | 120 | 50 |
| Total | 3361 | 1,298 |
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