About
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS or NUJS or NLU Kolkata) is a National Law University (NLU) located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. In 2024, it was ranked 4th among law colleges in India by National Institutional Ranking Framework and 2nd by India Today. It comes under the exclusive chancellorship and purview of the Chief Justice of India and is considered to be one of the best law schools in the country.
The university is indeed recognised as one of the pioneering law universities in India to offer a five-year integrated B.A. LLB (Hons.) and an LLM program with five different specialisations (Corporate & Commercial Law, International & Comparative Law, Criminal & Security Law, Law & Technology and Intellectual Property Law), later on added a five-year B.Sc. LLB program (with a general B.Sc. degree) as well which was discontinued in 2011 after a change in BCI requirements regarding the same. It then started a B.Sc. LLB (Hons.) course, offering B.Sc. in Forensic science and Criminology, in 2023. Admission to the B.A. LLB or B.Sc. LLB degree program and the LLM. program is through the Common Law Admission Test (a highly competitive, ranked among the top 05 hardest entrance examinations in India), held jointly by the national law schools/universities. NUJS/NLU Kolkata also offers M.Sc. in Forensic science, MPhil, Ph.D., LL.D, and diplomas in business laws and other programs, in addition to a number of online courses. In 2024, it has also started a specialised 2-Year LLM. program on Data Science & Data Protection Law, in collaboration with IISER Kolkata and IIIT Kalyani as knowledge partners and Cognizant as the industry partner.