CLAT 2026 Fifth Allotment List — Accept Seat by May 25

The Consortium of National Law Universities released the CLAT UG 2026 fifth and final allotment list on May 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM. If your name appears on it, the next 48 hours decide whether your NLU seat is locked or lost. The acceptance window — May 20 (10 AM) to May 25, 2026 (2 PM) — is hard. Miss it, and the centralised counselling process ends for you with no further lists, no waitlist, no spot round under the Consortium umbrella.

This guide walks you through exactly what to do over the next two days — fee payment, freeze rules, balance-fee deadline (May 30, 5 PM), and what unallotted candidates should pivot to. Every date below is from the official Consortium notification.

The CLAT 2026 fifth list — what just happened

CLAT 2026 was the first year the Consortium ran five counselling rounds, up from three in CLAT 2025. The first three rounds in early 2026 had Freeze, Float, and Exit options. Rounds four and five — added after sustained candidate pressure to fill late-stage vacancies — operate on a tighter schedule, and Round 5 is structurally different: only the Freeze option is available.

That means if your name appears in the fifth list, you have one choice — accept the allotted NLU at the current confirmation fee, or walk away. There is no float-to-a-better-NLU option. The Round 5 seat is the final seat.

The 48-hour action checklist

Step 1: Pay the confirmation fee (₹30,000 General / ₹20,000 reserved)

Window: May 20, 2026 (10:00 AM) to May 25, 2026 (2:00 PM).

Mode: Online portal at consortiumofnlus.ac.in only. UPI, net-banking, debit card — do not attempt offline DD or branch transfers.

The confirmation fee gets adjusted against your final university fee at the allotted NLU, so this is not an “extra” payment. It is the seat-lock deposit.

Step 2: Generate provisional admission letter

Once payment clears, your dashboard generates a provisional admission letter and an allotment receipt. Download both. Take print copies. NLUs will ask for these during physical reporting.

Step 3: Pay balance university fee to the allotted NLU

Deadline: May 30, 2026, 5:00 PM — and this one is non-negotiable.

You must pay the remaining first-semester fee directly to the NLU you’ve been allotted (not to the Consortium). NLU bank details, IFSC codes, and challan instructions are published on each NLU’s official admission page — for example NLSIU Bangalore, NUJS Kolkata, NALSAR Hyderabad, MNLU Mumbai at mnlumumbai.edu.in, and so on.

Missing this deadline forfeits both the seat and the confirmation fee. The seat goes to the spot round (run by individual NLUs, not the Consortium), and the ₹30,000 is gone.

Step 4: Document verification at the NLU

Each NLU publishes its own physical reporting and document verification calendar — typically falling between June 1 and June 20, 2026. Keep originals of: Class 10 marksheet, Class 12 marksheet + passing certificate, CLAT 2026 admit card and scorecard, allotment letter, confirmation-fee receipt, balance-fee receipt, caste/EWS/PwD certificates (where applicable), domicile certificate (if claiming state quota), passport-size photos, and Aadhaar/PAN.

What if you don’t see your name in the fifth list?

The Consortium has confirmed: if your name is not in the Round 5 allotment list, centralised counselling ends. No Round 6. No supplementary list. You do not roll over into next year automatically.

You have three rational paths from here:

1. Spot round at individual NLUs. A handful of NLUs — particularly newer ones at the bottom of the preference order — may declare a spot round in June 2026 to fill specific category vacancies (often ST, PwD, or domicile seats that didn’t fill in the centralised process). Watch each NLU’s admissions page directly; the Consortium does not aggregate spot-round info.
2. Pivot to AILET / NLU Delhi for 2026 enrolment if your AILET 2026 rank made it. NLU Delhi runs a separate four-round counselling and its final list is published independently.
3. Plan for CLAT 2027. Registration opens August 2026 (per the Consortium’s preliminary calendar). With 6+ months of structured prep and a clearer cut-off picture from this year, repeating with a sharper rank target is a defensible strategy. We’ve laid out the full timeline at CLAT 2027 Important Dates.

Frequently asked questions about the CLAT 2026 fifth allotment

Can I withdraw after accepting the fifth-round seat and get my confirmation fee back?

No. The Round 5 confirmation fee is non-refundable once paid. The Consortium’s withdrawal-and-refund mechanism applied only to Rounds 1–3 where Float and Exit were available. In Round 5, payment = final acceptance.

Is there a spot round after the fifth list?

Not at the Consortium level. Individual NLUs may conduct their own spot rounds for residual category-specific vacancies, but those are NLU-by-NLU announcements — not a Consortium-coordinated process.

I missed the May 25 confirmation fee deadline by a few hours. Can I still get the seat?

The Consortium’s system closes payments at 2:00 PM on May 25, 2026. There is no grace window. The seat moves automatically to the spot-round pool at the allotted NLU.

Do I need to physically report on May 30 or just transfer the fee?

May 30 is the deadline to pay the balance fee. Physical reporting and document verification is scheduled by each NLU separately — typically in the first three weeks of June 2026. Check your allotted NLU’s official admission page.

I’m in NLSIU’s Round 5 list as OBC — what was the closing rank?

NLSIU Bangalore’s Round 5 closing ranks closely follow the trajectory of earlier rounds. The Round 1 OBC-AI closing rank was 1018 and shifted modestly through later rounds. Your allotment letter will state your category-rank against the cut-off — that is the authoritative number.

How CLAT Gurukul can help

If you are pivoting to CLAT 2027, the next eight months matter more than the previous eighteen. We’ve published a complete NLU admission guide covering seat matrices and fee structures, plus a fresh CLAT 2027 prep roadmap on the home page. Aspirants can also track concept-level mastery on /my-progress/.

For seat acceptance doubts, fee payment troubleshooting, or strategy on whether to lock the Round 5 NLU vs. wait for spot rounds — call our counselling line at 7033005444. We answer between 9 AM and 9 PM IST.