Centralized Admissions for law courses from

academic year 2016-2017 in Maharashtra

A centralized process which is most likely to be based on a common entrance test (CET) will be
conducted for admissions to three and five-year law degree courses at government-run, aided and
unaided law colleges Maharashtra, from academic year 2016-17.
On June 6th the State Government decided to accord professional status to law studies along the lines
of engineering and medical education.
The Department of Higher Education is framing rules and regulations for the proposed centralized
admissions.
The Department of Higher Education has started collecting data from existing law colleges related to
grant-in-aid and non-grant-in-aid courses and associated teaching staff. This data will be used for
providing information to law course aspirants about the number of seats available at aided and nonaided colleges for the admissions from 2016-17.
The decision to grant professional status means the law studies will now have all the dimensions,
including a higher fees structure, that are associated with professional courses like engineering and
medical, said various representatives of Law Colleges. As law studies were considered as part of
liberal science education on the lines of Arts, Science and Commerce.
As of now only Universities bound by the University Grants Commission (UGC) Regulations, require an
all-India entrance test for admissions to their courses. Otherwise, all admissions at government-run,
aided and unaided law colleges in the state are done on a merit-based system at the institution level,
which means there exists no CET-based centralized admissions for these colleges.
College representatives said the Governments decision is in tune with the Bar Council of India (BCI)
Regulations of 2008 and the Supreme Court ruling on December 14, 2009 in the BCI v Bonnie Foi college
case which called for professional status to legal education in view of the changing dimensions of law
studies.
Mukund Sarda, Principal and Dean of Bharati Vidaypeeths New Law College, told TOI, Law institutions
will have to put a greater reliance on their own resources, just like private medical and engineering
colleges do, for meeting expenses like professional allowances for their teachers.
Rohini Honap, Principal of Deccan Education Societys Navalmal Firodia Law College, said, The fees
structure at unaided law colleges is likely to undergo a significant change in view of the Governments
decision.
Law institutions will have to put a greater reliance on their own resources, just like private medical
and engineering colleges do, for meeting expenses like professional allowances for their teachers.

List of Law Colleges in Maharashtra

College
Asmita College of Law

City
Mumbai

Balaji Law College

Pune

Bharati Vidyapeeths New Law College

Pune

D.E.S. Navalmal Firodia Law College

Pune

Dayanand Law College

Dr. D. Y. Patil Law College

Kanpur
Pune

G.H Raisoni Law School

Nagpur

Gopaldas Jhamatmal Advance Law College

Mumbai

Government Law College

Mumbai

ILS Law College

Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College

Pune
Satara

Jitendra Chauhan College of Law

Mumbai

Late Adv. Ramkrishnaji Rathi Law College

Washim

LN School of Law

Mumbai

Lords Universal College

M P Law College
Mahashtra National Law University
Marathwada Mitra Mandals Shankarrao Chavan Law College
Nalanda Law College

Goregaon
Aurangabad
Mumbai
Pune
Mumbai

Narayandas Sarwottamdas Law College

Sangli

New Law College, BVDU

Pune

NMIMS School of Law

Mumbai

NTVS's College of Law

Nandurbar

PES Law College

Pune Zilha Shikshan Mandals Law College
Rizvi Law College
shantaram potdukhe college of law

Mumbai
Pune
Mumbai
Chandrapur

Siddharth College of Law

Mumbai

SVKM's Pravin Gandhi College of Law

Mumbai

Symbiosis Law School

Vivekanand Education Society's College of Law

Pune
Mumbai