Maharashtra National Law University, Aurangabad

The State of Maharashtra realizing the importance of quality legal education and need of well-trained law graduates to the Bar, Bench and professions took a very bold decision by creating three National Law Universities in the State of Maharashtra at Mumbai, Nagpur and Aurangabad. Further all the three are independent and autonomous institutions created under the Maharashtra National Law University Act,2014. The latest one added to the list of National Law Universities in India is the Maharashtra National Law University, Aurangabad, commenced from March16, 2017. The commencement of the University has fulfilled the aspirations of the people of the Marathwada region for an institution of national importance in Aurangabad. The law university is set to make a beginning with admissions from the Academic Year 2017-18. The University entered into an MOU with the Convenor, CLAT 2017 to make admissions from the merit list of the qualified CLAT-2017 aspirants. The authorities are making all efforts to make the admissions and to provide all facilities to the students who take admission in MNLU-Aurangabad.

Vision:

• To advance and disseminate learning and knowledge of law and legal processes and their role in national development.
• To develop in the students and research scholars, a sense of responsibility.
• To serve society in the field of law by developing skills in regard to advocacy, legal services, legislation and law reforms.

Mission:

• For the Development and advancement of legal education and for the purpose of imparting specialized and systematic instruction, training and research in systems of law .

The University initially started in the campus of Govt., B.Ed College Campus at Padampura, Station Road, Aurangabad. The University has provided decent hostel facilities to boys and girls at Kanchanwadi covered premises. Bus service has been arranged for students from Kanchanwadi premises to B.Ed. College Campus. Further, the Govt. of Maharashtra has allotted 50 acres of land for the development of new campus.

The University follows semester system with six working days in a week, a minimum of 90 working days in a semester; and 180 days in an academic year in addition to examinations. The University introduced Choice- Based Credit Based System (CBCS) for undergraduate degree course. The students are required to earn a total of 200 credit points spread out through the course of five years; however the students shall be allowed to earn more credits from the courses offered by the external experts from time to time. Further, course structure is designed to impart 42 (forty two) compulsory papers, 02 (two) clinical papers and 06 (six) optional papers. A wide range of optional papers would also be offered to the students.