B.A. (Hons.)

NLSIU pioneered and developed an integrated 5-year BA LLB (Hons.) degree that transformed Indian legal education. Several NLS graduates have pursued further degrees in humanities, social sciences, and business and then embarked on very successful careers in these fields.

As NLSIU develops into a multi-disciplinary university, in line with national and State education policies, the BA programme draws on 35 years of experience in offering the integrated 5-year BA LLB (Hons.) programme. The NLS BA (Hons.) programme curriculum has been carefully designed by Faculty Teams and approved by the Governing Bodies in 2024 after extensive stakeholder consultations with eminent academics and practitioners from across the country’s top universities to provide their inputs and advice on the curriculum.

Our faculty come from leading universities within India and beyond. We have faculty strength in the following areas:

• History: Modern South Asia, Urban History, Labour History, Global History, Post-independent India, Development and Planning, Indian National movement (19th and 20th century).
• Sociology & Anthropology: Social theory, Caste and tribe, Capitalisms, Development, Land politics, Cinema and popular culture, Religion, Urban anthropology, Ecology.
• Economics: Development economics, Environmental economics, Labour economics, Econometrics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, History of Economic Thought, Game Theory.
• Politics: Western Political thought, Tagore, Gandhi, Periyar and Indian political thought, Political economy, Urban politics, Land, Indigeneity, Political parties, The Indian State and democracy, Comparative Methods in Political Research.

Our faculty have training in advanced quantitative and qualitative methods which they draw on for teaching and research. They have rich research agendas and publication records across law and the social sciences which will inform classroom teaching and learning.

Institutional Preference: Students who successfully complete the NLS BA (Hons) programme will be eligible for institutional preference for admission into the 3-Year LLB (Hons) and MPP programmes at NLSIU.  Such students must meet the minimum eligibility norms for admission to the 3-Year LLB (Hons.) and the MPP programmes. Read more in our FAQs section of the page.

Eligibility

Any person who has secured the higher secondary qualification [10+2 or an equivalent examination or programme] from any recognized board or school of education is eligible to apply to the programme. Applicants in the general category should have graduated with an aggregate of not less than 55% of total marks. Applicants in the SC/ST category should have graduated with an aggregate of not less than 45% of total marks.

Students in the final year of their higher-secondary education are also eligible to apply for the programme. However, their provisional offer of admission shall be contingent upon the successful completion of their higher-secondary education with the minimum aggregate marks specified above. Selected applicants shall receive a provisional admission offer and be required to produce the mark-sheet/transcript showing that they have completed their higher-secondary education, failing which they shall lose their right to be considered for admission.