Jagran Lakecity University School of Law is one of the finest law schools in the country currently. JLU-SOL is a member of the International Association of Law Schools (IALS), associated with the World Federation of United Nations Association (WFUNA), USA. It is also the intellectual partner of the Global Forum on Law, Justice, and Development (A World Bank Initiative).

Admission Requirements:

The institute offers LLB, BBA LLB, BA LLB, and LLM courses. The LLM course is offered in 3 specializations, i.e. Corporate & Intellectual Property Law, Cyber Law & Cyber Security, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice.

Undergraduate Courses:

• 12th pass with 50% and above is required from a recognized board in order to seek admission for LLB, BA-LLB, or BBA-LLB courses.

• Selection is done either by CLAT/LSAT or the JLUET examination followed by a personal interview.

Postgraduate Courses:

• Graduation with 50% aggregate is required for the LLM program.

• Admission is done based on CLAT PG / AILET PG/ JLUET score followed by a personal interview.

Campus Life:

• The institute offers a state-of-the-art Moot Court and a comprehensively designed training regime to provide the students with practical exposure from the start of their courses.

• The institute has a resourceful library with around 14500 books, reputed national and international law journals, and digests, legal and other databases such as SCC Online, Lexis Nexis, AIR Infotech, EBSCO, etc.

Fee Structure:

The fee structure of the academic year 2020 for the Law courses is as follows.

Placements:

The placement statistics for JLU Bhopal in Law according to the 2020 placements are as follows.

• The placement average for the institute was 100% according to last year’s placement.

• The highest and lowest salary package offered by the institute was 10 LPA and 3.5 LPA respectively.

In Madhya Pradesh JLU SOL is one of the best as compared to other private law schools like Career College of Law, Rajeeb Gandhi College, LNCT University, etc. So, yes, you should select JLU because it offers placements in reputed firms with a decent package. It has achieved 100 percent placements and students get recruited in companies like Taj, Marriott, etc.

YCMOU is an open university which is approved by the UGC. Since no particular course has been listed in the question posed above, one can compare various courses and their eligibility and fee structure when it comes to determining how good or bad the YCMOU is.

Some other aspects of comparison along with the ones listed have been mentioned below.

Ranking:

The institute received the Institutional Excellence Award in 2002 and in September 2019 from Commonwealth of Learning, Canada.

Application Process:

• Students can go to the official website and click on the online application tab and choose the program they wish to attend.

• After this, registration is required where a fee of INR 100 is to be paid.

• After downloading this form, students are required to send it with other documents to the institute.

Facilities:

• Being an open university, the college has basic amenities to cater to student’s needs.

• It has an audiovisual center for making programs based on the syllabus.

• The library comes replete with journal subscriptions, 44,000+ printed books as well as online journals and videocassettes.

Evaluation:

• The center for evaluation technology provides course wise question banks for academic programs.

• This poses as a resource material for paper setting.

• Trained paper setters are required to set papers for students. This is based on a computerized database of experts handling this task.

Placements:

• The career guidance and placements cell offer opportunities for students to get placed.

• Major recruiters include IBM, Tata Housing, DK Group, Wipro, etc.

• The highest salary offered at the institute is INR 16 LPA with an average of 5 LPA.

While enrollment is relatively easy to the institute, students can also expect to make a decent career after enrolling into the institute.