National Law Universities (NLU) or National Law Schools are public law schools in India, founded pursuant to the second-generation reforms for legal education sought to be implemented by the Bar Council of India. The first NLU was the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), located in Bangalore, which admitted its first batch in 1988. Since then, most of the states in India have established an NLU. Currently, there are 23 NLUs across the country. Since their inception, these law schools have continuously been ranked as India's most prestigious and premier law schools by various agencies and have been ranked amongst the best law schools globally by leading agencies like Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Admissions to these universities is conducted through the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) and is extremely competitive with an acceptance rate of as low as 2 to 3 percent.