NLSIU Bengaluru to introduce three-year BA (Hons) programme from 2025

The new programme comes with the option of an additional fourth year and the classes for the first cohort of the programme will commence on July 1, 2025. Anyone who has secured the higher secondary qualification [10+2 or an equivalent examination or programme] from any recognised board or school of education is eligible to apply to the new programme.

“NLSIU has 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 NLS BA (Hons) programme has evolved organically from 35 years of experience in offering the integrated 5-year BA LLB (Hons) programme,” NLSIU stated.

“The NLS BA (Hons.) programme has been developed by Faculty Teams from August 2023. It received approval from the governing bodies earlier in 2024. Recently, the university held an extensive stakeholder consultation with eminent academics and practitioners who advised on the curriculum,” the university added.

The NLS BA is designed to include a common core series of foundational courses jointly offered to all first year students across the BA and BA LLB programmes; option of selecting a major-minor track or a double major track in the disciplines of History, Sociology & Anthropology, Politics, Economics; learning a selection of Indian languages; and practice courses in areas such as AI & Machine Learning, Film-making, Business Consulting, User Experience Research, Digital Journalism, Creative Writing, Entrepreneurship, Policy Advocacy and Analysis.

The maximum intake for the NLS BA (Hons) Programme for the Academic Year 2025-26 is 60. The ‘Registration of Interest’ form for this programme will be released on the NLS BA (Hons) programme page of the NLSIU website on December 10, 2025. Meanwhile, the application forms for the programme will be available on NLSIU’s website in the first week of January 2025.

The total fee per annum for the programme costs Rs 4,32,500 including admission fee (one time) of Rs 13,000, tuition and facilities fee (per annum) of Rs 2,96,000 and off-campus housing fee (optional) of Rs 1,23,500 per annum.