Archive · 6 Aug 2026
Several Law Colleges Missing From Maharashtra LLB Admission Portal
Many students in Maharashtra want to study law at college.
This year, they are picking their preferred law colleges through a special admission website.
To their surprise, some well-known law colleges were not on the list.
The website only includes colleges that received approval from the Bar Council and affiliation from their university.
The Bar Council checks whether law colleges meet proper standards.
Colleges need full-time principals, qualified teachers, and facilities like moot courts to qualify.
Last year, 218 colleges offered the three-year law course and 161 offered the five-year course.
This year, only 93 and 56 colleges are listed.
Many colleges did not even apply for approval, even though they were given six weeks to do so.
Students can keep their first-round seats and try for a better college in the next round.
Students in Maharashtra's centralised LLB admission process found several prominent law colleges missing from the first-round list.
Only colleges with Bar Council approval and university affiliation were included in the first round of admissions.
Only 93 three-year and 56 five-year LLB colleges are listed this year, compared with 218 and 161 last year.
Around 125 three-year and 105 five-year LLB colleges reportedly did not even submit applications for approval.
A seat retention option lets candidates keep first-round seats while applying for betterment in the second round.
- Who
- Students seeking admission to three-year and five-year LLB programmes in Maharashtra, along with the CET Cell, the Higher Education Department, and the Bar Council.
- What
- Several prominent law colleges were missing from the first-round admission portal because they lacked Bar Council approval and university affiliation.
- When
- The issue emerged on the first day of the option-filling process for the first round of admissions.
- Where
- Maharashtra, India.
- Why
- Only colleges meeting prescribed standards for legal education, such as full-time principals, qualified faculty, and infrastructure including moot courts, were included, and many colleges did not complete the approval process.
Students' Concerns
Officials' Defense
Missing colleges
Students' Concerns
High-scoring candidates are concerned and disappointed because several reputed colleges they hoped to join are absent from the first-round admission portal.
Officials' Defense
A senior Higher Education Department official defended the decision, saying only colleges with Bar Council approval and university affiliation should be included to uphold standards.
Responsibility for delays
Students' Concerns
Students remain uncertain whether the missing colleges will complete the approval process in time for the next admission round.
Officials' Defense
Officials noted that colleges were given six weeks to finish formalities and that several did not even submit applications or application acknowledgements.
- State
- Maharashtra
- Programmes
- Three-year and five-year LLB
- Three-year LLB colleges in first round
- 93
- Five-year LLB colleges in first round
- 56
- Three-year LLB colleges last year
- 218
- Five-year LLB colleges last year
- 161
- Three-year LLB colleges without approval applications
- 125
- Five-year LLB colleges outside approval process
- 105