Common Law Admission Test

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a centralized national-level entrance test for admissions to the 25 out of 26 National Law Universities (NLU) except NLU Delhi and NLU Meghalaya NLU Delhi takes admissions through its own test known as All India Law Entrance Test (AILET). Whereas, NLU Meghalaya was established recently and conducts its own entrance exam. AILET is anticipated to be merged into CLAT in the coming years. CLAT was first introduced in 2008 as a centralized entrance examination for admission to the National Law Schools/Universities in India. A few private and self-financed law schools in India also use these scores for law admissions. Public sector undertakings in India like ONGC, Coal India, BHEL, Steel Authority of India, Oil India, Indian Army [For the recruitment of JAG officers] etc use CLAT Post Graduation scores.