The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF ranking 2025. As per the rankings, NLU Odisha has achieved an NIRF rank of 15 in the Law category with a score of 63.66.
NLU Odisha has been featured in the NIRF 2025. According to the NIRF Ranking 2025, NLU Odisha is ranked 2 in Law category. The rankings reflect the NLU Odisha's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows NLU Odisha’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2025 and 2024. NLU Odisha has shown improvement in the Law category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank |
| Law | 2 | 26 |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Law, NLU Odisha scored 80.0.The following table shows NLU Odisha’s performance across all the parameters in the Law category:
| Parameter | 2025 Score | 2024 Score |
| Total Score | 80 | 77.48 |
| TLR | - | 87.17 |
| RP | - | 37.03 |
| GO | - | 82.44 |
| OI | - | 71.29 |
| PR | - | 93.2 |
Comparison of NLU Odisha against similar NIRF - 2025 ranked college in Law category.
| College Name | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| NLU Odisha | 2 | 26 | 30 |
| NALSAR University of Law | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| NUJS | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Gujarat National Law University | 5 | 8 | 7 |
| IIT Kharagpur | 6 | 7 | 9 |
| SLS Pune | 7 | 5 | - |
| NLSIU Bangalore | 1 | 1 | 1 |