TNDALU Admission Process 2025: Dates, Admit Card, Syllabus, Preparation, Participating Colleges, Updates

The 3-year LLB application process last date is today, July 10. Law aspirants can check out various law courses at Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University. Find out more about the TNDALU admission process 2025 from this article.

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TNDALU Admission Process 2025
TNDALU Admission Dates 2025
TNDALU Eligibility Criteria 2025
TNDALU Application Process 2025
TNDALU Application Fee 2025
TNDALU Merit List 2025
TNDALU Cut Off 2025
TNDALU Counselling Process 2025
TNDALU Reservation Policy 2025
TNDALU Seat Intake & Participating Colleges 2025

TNDALU admission process 2025 for 3-year LLB is ongoing on the official website of Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University (TNDALU). The application process for the 3-year LLB admission process is ongoing, and the last date to submit the application form is July 10, 2025. The cutoff list for the 5-year LLB was released and students have been admitted to their allotted colleges.

Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University (TNDALU) is a prestigious university known to impart education through a variety of law courses. The university does not conduct an entrance examination for admission to LLB and LLM courses; however, it does consider the marks acquired in the qualifying examination for shortlisting candidates. TNDALU offers admission to affiliated law colleges as well as the School of Excellence in Law. The TNDALU admission process 2025 has begun this year with the commencement of the application process on May 12, 2025. Registration for law admission at TNDALU is conducted online through the official website.

To know about the TNDALU admission process 2025 in detail, read this article along with the important dates, courses offered, seat matrix, eligibility criteria, the application process, merit list, cutoff and counselling process of TNDALU.

TNDALU Admission Process 2025

The TNDALU admission process 2025 includes registration for new candidates, filling up the application form, release of the cutoff and merit list, beginning of the counselling process with document verification and release of the seat allotment and at the end reporting to the allotted colleges in Rounds 1 and 2. Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University offers various law courses such as BA LLB (Hons.), BBA LLB (Hons.), B.Com LLB (Hons.), BCA LLB (Hons.), 3-year LLB (Hons.), LLM and PhD . After the release of the seat allotment list, candidates have to confirm their admission by paying the admission fees at the respective colleges.

TNDALU Admission Dates 2025

The TNDALU admission 2025 schedule has been released on the official website. Candidates can check out the important dates of the TNDALU admission process here:

Events	Important Dates for Integrated LL.B	Important Dates for 3 Years LL.B	Important Dates for LL.M
Release of TNDALU Application Form	May 12, 2025	June 16, 2025	To be Notified
Last Date for TNDALU Application Form	May 31, 2025	July 10, 2025	To be Notified
Release of TNDALU Cutoff Marks for Round 1	June 10, 2025 (Affiliated Colleges) June 10, 2025 (SOEL)	To be Notified	To be Notified
TNDALU Counselling Starts with document verification	June 11 to June 14, 2025 (Affiliated Colleges) June 11 to June 13, 2025 (SOEL)	To be Notified	To be Notified
Release of Seat Allotment	June 18, 2025 (Affiliated Colleges) June 16, 2025 (SOEL)	To be Notified	To be Notified
Reporting to College	June 23 to June 25, 2025 June 23, 2025 (SOEL)	To be Notified	To be Notified
Release of TNDALU Cutoff Marks for Round 2	July 10, 2025 (SOEL)	To be Notified	To be Notified
Document verification begins	July 10 to July 12, 2025 (SOEL)	To be Notified	To be Notified
Release of Seat Allotment List	July 14, 2025 (SOEL)	To be Notified	To be Notified
Reporting to College	To be Notified	To be Notified	To be Notified
Release of TNDALU Cutoff Marks for Round 3	-	To be Notified	To be Notified
Online Original Document Verification	-	To be Notified	To be Notified
Issue of Allotment Order Online	-	To be Notified	To be Notified
Date of Joining	-	To be Notified	To be Notified

Also Read: 3-year LLB or 5-year Integrated LLB: Which is a Better Course?

TNDALU Eligibility Criteria 2025

Before proceeding with the application process for TNDALU admission 2025, an individual needs to make sure that he/ she fulfils the eligibility norms prescribed by the university. Those candidates who fail to do so will not be considered for admission at all. Provided below are the course-wise eligibility criteria for TNDALU admissions 2025:

5-year Integrated LL.B Courses

Courses	Course Offered by	Qualifying Exam	Eligible Minimum Marks (in all subjects)
Courses	Course Offered by	Qualifying Exam	SC/ ST	Others (including NRIs)
BA LL.B(Hons.)	School of Excellence in Law, The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Perungudi Campus, Dr. M.G.R. Salai, Near MRTS Tharamani Railway Station, Chennai -113	HSC/ CBSE/ ISC/ 3-Year Diploma/ Polytechnic (Completed from a recognised educational institution as equivalent thereto are eligible)	60%	70%
BBA LL.B (Hons.)		HSC/ CBSE/ ISC/ 3-Year Diploma/ Polytechnic (Completed from a recognised educational institution as equivalent thereto)
B.Com LL.B (Hons.)		HSC/ CBSE/ ISC/ 3-Year Diploma/ Polytechnic (Completed from a recognised educational institution as equivalent thereto are eligible) Commerce or Equivalent Subject related to Commerce alone should be a mandatory subject in 10+2
BCA LL.B (Hons.)		HSC/ CBSE/ ISC/ 3-Year Diploma/ Polytechnic (Completed from a recognised educational institution as equivalent thereto are eligible) Computer Science or an Equivalent subject related to Computer Science alone should be a mandatory subject in 10+2
5 Year BA LL.B Degree Course	Affiliated Government Law Colleges in Tamil Nadu (Government & Private)	HSC/ CBSE/ ISC/ 3-year Diploma/ Polytechnic (Completed from a recognised educational institution as equivalent thereto are eligible)	40%	45%

3-year Law Degree Courses

Courses	Course Offered by	Qualifying Exam	Eligible Minimum Marks (in all subjects)
Courses	Course Offered by	Qualifying Exam	SC/ ST	Others
3-year LL.B (Hons.)	School of Excellence in Law, The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Perungudi Campus, Dr. M.G.R. Salai, Near MRTS Taramani Railway Station, Chennai -113	An Under Graduate Degree in any discipline (10+2+3 or 10+3+3 streams alone are eligible)	55%	60% (Including NRI
3-year LL.B	Affiliated Law Colleges in Tamil Nadu		40%	45%

LL.M and PhD

Course Name		Qualifying Exam	Mandatory Subjects	Minimum Qualifying Marks
Course Name		Qualifying Exam	Mandatory Subjects	Others & NRL	SC/ ST
LL.M		3-year or 5-year UG Law programme or its equivalent	N/A	40% under the old regulation or 45% marks under the new regulation
PhD	Law	LL.M Degree	N/A	55%
PhD	Interdisciplinary Field	Master‘s Degree (M.L)	N/A	55%

TNDALU Application Process 2025

One of the most important steps for the TNDALU admission 2025 is the application process. Candidates need to carefully fill up the application form, which needs to be filled up only in online mode. Applicants need to submit separate application forms for each course offered in the School of Excellence in Law & Affiliated Law Colleges. However, those applying for BA LL.B(Hons.) and BBA LL.B (Hons.) can use the same application Form. Candidates will be selected purely based on the merit of their performance in the qualifying exam and as per the Rules of Reservation prescribed by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Those eligible to apply under the NRI Quota have to get the application form physically from the Law Admissions Office by submitting the required fee. The TNDALU 2025 application fee has to be paid through the Online Payment Gateway only.

TNDALU Online Application Process 2025

Here are a few steps explaining how to fill out the application form of TNDALU 2025 through online mode:

Visit the official website of the university.
Click on the registration link mentioned on the homepage.
Register yourself by entering valid details.
Log in with your registered username and password.
Fill up all the personal and academic details carefully.
Submit the form.
Upload the required documents.
Pay the application fee of TNDALU 2025 through net banking, debit/ credit card.

TNDALU Application Fee 2025

The application process for the TNDALU admission 2025 for the 5-year LLB and LLM is now over. Students can apply for the 3-year LLB until August 10, 2025. The candidates have to pay the application fee through an online payment gateway. They can pay through credit card, debit card, net banking and UPI. Once the application fee has been paid, it will not be refunded.

Take a look at the Integrated law, 3-year law and LLM course fees for different categories of candidates from the table below:

Course	College	Application Fee
Course	College	General	SC/ ST
Integrated LL.B	Affiliated Law Colleges	500	250
Integrated LL.B	School of Excellence in Law	1000	500
3-year LL.B	Affiliated Law Colleges	500	250
3-year LL.B	School of Excellence in Law	1000	500
LLM	-	1000	500

Application Fee for NRI Quota

Under the NRI Quota, the candidates have to pay 200 USD by “Swift Account”. The application fee once paid will not be refunded. The law applicants can apply under NRI Quota if the father/ mother or both are NRI or if the candidate has no parent but the person/ guardian who has taken the candidate as a ward is an NRI. The application fee can be paid in the following bank/ account as mentioned below:

Intermediary Bank (Swift Field 56) Bank of America, New York	Swift Code: BOFAUS3N
Beneficiary Bank (Swift Field 57) Indian Bank, Treasury, Mumbai	Swift Code: IDIBINBBTSY
Beneficiary Bank (Swift Field 59) Account Number 6037792308	-
Account Name and Address of Candidate (in the Address Column of Beneficiary Indian Bank Branch Address- Indian Bank, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University Branch, Perungudi, Chennai - 600113

Intermediary Bank (Swift Field 56)

Bank of America, New York

Swift Code: BOFAUS3N

Beneficiary Bank (Swift Field 57)

Indian Bank, Treasury, Mumbai

Swift Code: IDIBINBBTSY

Beneficiary Bank (Swift Field 59)

Account Number 6037792308

Account Name and Address of Candidate

(in the Address Column of Beneficiary Indian Bank Branch

Address- Indian Bank, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University Branch, Perungudi, Chennai - 600113

TNDALU Merit List 2025

The merit list for the TNDALU admission process 2025 is released after the completion of the application process. During the centralised admission process, the university will prepare the merit lists of all courses including BA LLB, BBA LLB, 3-year LLB and LLM. Candidates will be shortlisted for TNDALU admission based on their merit cum preference, the marks acquired in the qualifying examination. The students who have scored well in the qualifying examination will get the chance for admission to their desired college.

The TNDALU merit list will be released in the form of counselling cutoff marks. All candidates having a score more than the cutoff will be eligible to participate in the counselling. The TNDALU merit list carries the merit rank of the candidates which helps in selecting the deserving ones through the counselling process.

TNDALU Cut Off 2025

The cutoff for TNDALU admission 2025 will be generated for both the School of Excellence in Law and affiliated law colleges. A category-wise cut-off list is released by the university and only those who meet the cutoff will be eligible to participate in the counselling process. The cutoffs are decided based on the marks obtained by the candidates in the qualifying examination. The university follows merit cum preference criteria while preparing the cutoff list. It depends upon the number of seats offered in the law course, the reservation policy, the performance of the candidates in the exam and others. We have provided below the TNDALU cutoff for the 5-year LLB course for Affiliated colleges and SOEL:

TNDALU 2025 for 5-Year LLB for Affiliated Law Colleges

TNDALU 2025 cutoff scores for the 5-year LL.B course (Affiliated Law Colleges) have been provided below for Round 1:

Category	Cutoff Marks
Category	Merit List	Wait List
OC	94.250	-
BC	89.000	87.273
BC (M)	89.750	88.500
MBC/ DNC	89.500	87.500
SC	89.000	87.500
SC (A)	87.250	87.250
ST	80.750	80,750

TNDALU 2025 for 5-Year LLB for School of Excellence in Law

The TNDALU 2025 cutoff marks for the 5-year law courses at the School of Excellence in Law are tabulated below:

Round 1

Category	Cutoff Marks for Merit List Candidates			Cutoff Marks for Wait List Candidates
Category	BA LL.B (Hons.)/ BBA LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	B.Com LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	BCA LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	BA LL.B (Hons.)/ BBA LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	B.Com LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	BCA LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses
OC	97.750	97.750	96.500	-	-	-
BC	96.500	96.250	94.000	95.000	94.000	91.000
BC (M)	95.750	96.500	93.250	94.250	93.250	90.000
MBC/ DNC	96.250	95.250	91.750	94.000	92.000	87.500
SC	95.000	94.000	92.250	93.000	91.000	87.000
SC (A)	93.750	91.750	88.750	90.500	88.000	76.250
ST	92.000	91.250	82.250	89.000	82.000	71.000

Round 2

Category	Cutoff Marks for Merit List Candidates			Cutoff Marks for Wait List Candidates
Category	BA LL.B (Hons.)/ BBA LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	B.Com LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	BCA LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	BA LL.B (Hons.)/ BBA LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	B.Com LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses	BCA LL.B (Hons.) Degree Courses
OC	96.000	96.750	92.750	-	-	-
BC	94.500	93.500	89.500	93.250	93.000	88.000
BC (M)	93.500	92.750	-	92.750	90.250	-
MBC/ DNC	93.000	91.750	87.250	91.750	91.000	84.750
SC	92.250	-	-	91.250	-	-
SC (A)	89.750	87.750	-	87.500	87.250	-
ST	-	-	-	-	-	-

TNDALU Counselling Process 2025

The conducting body is likely to send an invitation letter for the counselling process of TNDALU. If in any case an individual meets the cutoff criteria and has not received the invitation, he/she can still sit for the counselling rounds. The counselling process for TNDALU admissions 2025 will be held separately for LLB (Hons.), LLM and PhD programmes. Around 5 rounds of counselling will be conducted for the integrated LLB (Hons.) courses while 3 rounds of counselling will be held for the LLB (Hons.) programme. The TNDALU counselling process is conducted online and separately for the School of Excellence in Law and affiliated law colleges.

The counselling process for the TNDALU admission process 2025 includes steps such as online registration, document submission and verification. Based on the TNDALU counselling, the university announces admission cutoffs and informs the candidates about their admission status.

TNDALU Reservation Policy 2025

Communal reservation and reservation for special categories as prescribed by the Government of Tamil Nadu for the selection of candidates for TNDALU admission 2025. Tamil Nadu native candidates alone will be considered for communal reservations. Community Certificates obtained from Other States will not be considered for communal reservation. Their candidature will be treated as an Open Category (OC). We have provided below the TNDALU reservation policy:

Category of the Candidate	Reservation Percentage
Open Category	31%
Backward Class (Others)	26.5%
Backward Class (Muslim)	3.5%
Most Backward Class & Denotified Communities	20%
Scheduled Caste (Others)	15%
Scheduled Caste (Arunthathiyars)	3%
Scheduled Tribes	1%
Reservation for Special Category
Children of Ex-Servicemen	1%
Children of Freedom Fighter	1%
Persons with Disabilities	5% (each 1%)
Blindness and Low Vision	1%
Deaf and Hard Hearing	1%
Locomotor Disability including Cerebral Palsy, Leprosy Cured, Dwarfism, Acid Attack Victims and Muscular Dystrophy	1%
Autism, Intellectual Disability, Specific Learning Disability and Mental Illness	1%
Multiple Disabilities including Deaf-Blindness in the programme identified for each disability	1%
Eminent Sportsperson	11 seats

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TNDALU Seat Intake & Participating Colleges 2025

Provided below is the course-wise TNDALU seat intake 2025 in affiliated law colleges and the School of Excellence in Law.

5-year Integrated courses and Seat Intake - School of Excellence in Law

Course	Intake Capacity
BA LL.B (Hons.)	156
BBA LL.B (Hons.)	156
B.Com LL.B (Hons.)	156
BCA LL.B (Hons.)	156
Total	624

Note: 15% of seats will be reserved for NRI candidates in each law courses. If the NRI seats remain vacant, such seats will be converted to general category seats.

Seat Intake for LLB (Hons) in Participating Colleges

Check out the seat intake for the 5 years integrated LLB (Hons.) below:

Sr. No.	College Name	Seat Intake
1.	Chennai Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Pattarai Perumpudhur	241
2.	Government Law College, Madurai	171
3.	Government Law College, Tiruchirapalli	160
4.	Government Law College, Chengalpattu	160
5.	Government Law College, Coimbatore	160
6.	Government Law College, Tirunelveli	160
7.	Government Law College, Vellore	80
8.	Government Law College, Dharmapuri	80
9.	Government Law College, Villupuram	80
10.	Government Law College, Salem	80
11.	Government Law College, Ramanathapuram	80
12.	Government Law College, Namakkal	80
13.	Government Law College, Theni	80
14.	Saraswathy Law College (Private), Tindivanam	39
Total		1651

TNDALU 2025 Seat Intake for 3-year LL.B in Participating Colleges

Sr. No.	College Name	Seat Intake
1.	Chennai Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College	321
2.	Government Law College, Madurai	181
3.	Government Law College, Tiruchirapalli	200
4.	Government Law College, Coimbatore	200
5.	Government Law College, Tirunelveli	200
6.	Government Law College, Chengalpattu	80
7.	Government Law College, Vellore	80
8.	Government Law College, Villupuram	80
9.	Government Law College, Dharmapuri	80
10.	Government Law College, Ramanathapuram	80
11.	Saraswathy Law College (Private), Tindivanam	39
Total		1541

The total intake capacity is 60 seats, of which 65% seats are reserved for Government quota. The remaining 35% of seats or 21 seats are Management quota seats.

TNDALU Affiliated Private Law Colleges

Sr. No.	College Name
1.	Central Law College, Salem
2.	Saraswathy Law College, Tindivanam
3.	Mother Teresa Law College, Pudukottai District
4.	G.T.N Law College, Dindigul District
5.	KMC College of Law, Tiruppur District
6.	Erode College of Law, Erode District
7.	S.Thangapazham Law college, Tenkasi District
8.	Thulasi College of Law for Women, Tuticorin District
9.	Mugil College of Law, Kanyakumari District

Seat Intake for LLM

Check out the specialisation-wise LLM seat intake at TNDALU below:

Sr. No.	Course Name	LLM Seat Intake
1.	LLM (International Law and Organization)	20
2.	LLM (Business Law)	20
3.	LLM (Labour Law and Administrative Law)	20
4.	LLM (Constitutional Law and Human Rights)	20
5.	LLM (Human Rights and Duties Education)	20
6.	LLM ( Intellectual Property Law )	20
7.	LLM ( Taxation Law )	20
8.	LLM (Environmental Law and Legal Order)	20
9.	LLM (Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Administration)	20
Total Seats		180

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