Four universities have closing ranks on this site that have been read off the Consortium's own allotment lists. Here they are, for the General category, all-India quota, final round of CLAT 2026.
| University | Round 1 | Final round (round 5) |
|---|---|---|
| NLSIU Bengaluru | 101 | **120** |
| NALSAR Hyderabad | 148 | **168** |
| WBNUJS Kolkata | — | **343** |
| GNLU Gandhinagar | — | **398** |
Everything else on this page is about how to read those four numbers, because read carelessly they cause more harm than help.
The round is half the fact
A closing rank is the last rank in that category and quota that was offered a seat in that round. It rises from round to round: as candidates above you take seats elsewhere, withdraw or upgrade, seats release further down the list.
NLSIU is the clearest illustration on file. Round one closed at 101. By the final round it closed at 120 — nineteen ranks of difference at the most competitive law school in the country. NALSAR moved from 148 to 168 over the same rounds.
So a closing rank quoted without a round is close to meaningless, and the direction of the error matters. Most sites quote round one, because it is the more impressive number. Round one is the hardest version of the cutoff, and planning against it means planning against a bar higher than the one you will actually face.
Use the final round. Then leave yourself room anyway.
The quota is the other half
The all-India figures above are not the figures for everyone. Several universities reserve seats for candidates domiciled in their state, and those close at very different ranks.
NLSIU's Karnataka-domicile General closing rank in CLAT 2026 was 336, against 120 all-India. NALSAR's Telangana-domicile figure was 565. NUJS's West Bengal figure was 746.
If you are eligible for a domicile quota, those are the numbers that describe your position, and they change the shortlist materially. The full cutoff table filters by quota and category so you can see your own.
Category matters as much
The General figures above are one slice. The same universities close at very different ranks by category — at NLSIU in CLAT 2026, for instance, the final-round all-India closing ranks were 3,142 for SC, 5,227 for ST, 1,177 for OBC and 740 for EWS.
The point is not the individual numbers but the scale of the difference. A candidate looking at "NLSIU closes at 120" and concluding the university is out of reach may be looking at a figure that has nothing to do with their own position.
What these numbers cannot tell you
They cannot tell you the 2027 cutoff. That depends on the difficulty of a paper nobody has sat and on how everybody else performs. This site publishes no expected cutoff for exactly that reason — with one verified year on file, a projection would be a guess with a decimal point on it. The method that would produce one honestly is written out, along with the condition that releases it.
They cannot tell you about the twenty-three universities not in the table. Their allotment lists have not been read. They are unknown, not unreachable — the NLU index shows exactly which have data and which do not, rather than filling the gap with numbers from an aggregator.
They cannot tell you whether you should go. A closing rank is a measure of demand, not of fit. Fees, city, domicile eligibility and the kind of practice you want all change the answer.
How to use them
Take the final-round closing rank for your target university, in your category and quota. Treat it as a floor to clear with room, not a target to hit exactly.
Then work backwards to a score, carefully. Rank-to-score conversion needs score-to-rank data, and this site has none on file — so no rank estimate is offered anywhere on it, including here. What you can do is set a rank target and measure progress against mocks in rank-equivalent terms if your mock platform provides them.
The college predictor will match a rank against these verified figures and shows you which universities it cannot answer for, which is most of them.
The part you control
None of the above is the variable. The score is.
The free Diagnostic Test is a full-length, timed paper with a section-wise and timing breakdown afterwards. A closing rank only means something next to a number of your own, and two hours is all it takes to have one.
For how the universities compare beyond the cutoff, the Top NLUs page puts the NIRF ranking beside these same closing ranks and covers how to choose by career goal.