ISLAMABAD, Oct 29: The National Law University (NLU), established by the Higher Education Commission (HEC), will start classes for the first batch in March next year.

The NLU, a federal university with campuses in all the four provinces, is offering a five-year LLB degree programme for the students.

According to a press release issued here on Monday, the land for the proposed NLU and its permanent campuses has already been acquired in the federal capital and all the four provincial capitals. The university will have linkages with other international institutions imparting law education and carrying out research. The university will work to enhance the quality of legal profession, the bar and the bench.

The faculty will be hired on Tenure Track System with attractive salary packages approved by the Ministry of Finance recently. It may be added that last year, the HEC had sent 25 law graduates to the top universities of the world for higher studies in LLM and PhD. These young professional on return will be offered jobs in the NLU.

The NLU will select the first batch of students from all over the country in February/March next year. The students will be admitted after a rigorous test process.