Well if we analyse these three NLU's patna , lucknow and patiala on the basis of faculty , campus then 1st point to be observed is all of the three are relatively new NLU, also NLU Lucknow and Patiala are at par with each other on no of aspects , if we rank above three then luckow and patiala will occupy top two spots and patna would be third as follows:

• NLU Lucknow :All India Unreserved seats are 50% of total, better rank quotient. Batch diversity due to women & NRI seats(score of 52.39 acc to NIRF ranking)
• NLU Patiala:Large batch size without location benefit. Higher percentage of All India unreserved seats. Moderate rank quotient(score of 55.53 acc to NIRF ranking)
• NLU Patna:Location benefit (State capital) over others. Large no. of state category seats. Slightly larger batch with fairly high rank coefficient. Established NLU