West Bengal National University of Juridical Science is shortly called as NUJS or WBNUJS and the university came into existence in the year 1999. It is public university operating from the city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. The university is regarded as one among the elite national law schools at it offers various courses in the faculty of law. Admission of students to the university is done based on the performance of the students in the highly competitive nation-wide Common Law Admission Test, which is conducted jointly by eleven National Law Schools in the nation.

The university has organized itself into a number of centres of study and schools that are independent of operation and conception, yet integrated through extension, research and teaching activities. Some of the centres functioning under the university are:

Centres Functioning under the university:

• Centre for Women & Law

• Centre for Studies in WTO Laws

• Centre for human rights and citizenship studies

• Centre for consumer protection and welfare

Schools Functioning under the university:

The schools functioning under the university are:

• School of Technology, law & development

• School of Social Sciences

• School of Public Law & Governance

• School of Private Laws & Comparative Jurisprudence

• School of Legal Practice & Development

• School of Economic & Business Laws

• School of Criminal Justice & Administration

Two chairs are functioning under the university and they are chair on intellectual property rights and chair on human rights. The list of courses offered by the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences is given below:

Courses:

• Post Graduate Diploma in Air & Space Law

• One-year Post Graduate Diploma in Business Laws in association with L&T limited for executives & others

• Post-Graduate Certificate Programme in right-based campaign development strategy

• LL. D

• Ph. D in law

• Master of Philosophy in Law

• Masters of Law

• Five-year integrated Bachelor of Arts with Bachelor of Law

• Five-year integrated Bachelor of Science with Bachelor of Law

West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences offer the best education, which can be understood from the fact that past students of the university are working for top law firms in India and abroad and some of them are also practicing in courts. Most of the students of the university have earned prestigious scholarships like Chevening, Felix and Rhodes for pursuing their higher studies in the nations like the United States of America and the United Kingdom and other leading universities located in different parts of the world.