BCI Warns unauthorised Top Law Universities Against Offering Online/Hybrid LL.M Degrees

The BCI is in the process of issuing notices to top law universities, including NLU Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, Jindal Global University and NLIU Bhopal, for offering LL.M degrees through online or hybrid modes without the approval of the BCI.

The BCI clarified that those degrees are not valid for jobs, research, judicial services and academic posts and directed the universities to immediately suspend these programmes.

Only classroom-based LL.M courses with BCI approval are recognised in India.

To raise awareness, the BCI is in the process of issuing a national advisory to warn students, legal institutions and government departments to disregard such LL.M. degrees as qualifications.