CLAT 2023: Participating Institutions for the year 2023

Students desiring to become lawyers in India will need to appear in many entrance exams. The top entrance exam for LLB and LLM is CLAT held each year.

CLAT is held for admission to 21 participating institutes. These participating institutes will accept CLAT 2023 marks for admission in law undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

Two more colleges have been added to a list of 19 law colleges to make it 21 institutes participating in CLAT in year 2023. The new additions are Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh.

Please note, the validity of the scores obtained by the candidates in CLAT 2023 will be restricted to 21 NLUs and over 25 private law schools as per information available to us.

The final list will be announced in prospectus for CLAT 2023 exam to be released in December or January next year.

CLAT 2023 Participating Institutes with seat break-up

S.No.	National Law Universities	General Category Seats	Total seats
1	National Law School of India University, Bangalore	53	80
2	National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad	81	105
3	National Law Institute University, Bhopal	65	122
4	West Bengal National University of Judicial Sciences, Kolkata	74	115
5	National Law University, Jodhpur	72.5% of total available seats 104 + 16 seats for NRI/ NRI sponsored candidates	104
6	Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur	62	180
7	Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar	115	180
8	Ram Manohar Lohiya National law University, Lucknow	80	178
9	Rajiv Gandhi National Law University, Patiala	133	180
10	Chanakya National Law University, Patna	60	120
11	National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi	31	60
12	National Law University Odisha, Cuttack	114	180
13	National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi	60	140 (including 20 special category seats)
14	National Law University and Judicial Academy, Guwahati	47	60
15	Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Vishakhapatnam	72	120 (including 12 seats for Foreign Citizens / Non-Resident Indians.)
16	Tamil Nadu National Law School, Trichy	62	120 (including 6 seats for NRI/OCI quota)
17	Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai	-	100
18	Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur	39	130
19	Maharashtra National Law University, Aurangabad	19	60
20	Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur (MPDNLU)	76	120
21	Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla	46	60
22	Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Law University, Sonipat	41	120
23	National Law University, Agartala	-	60