Law is new calling for engineers, doctors in Telangana

Interdisciplinary migration being driven by evolving job markets and expanding legal domains in various areas including technologies, say law professors

Hyderabad: With growing demand for interdisciplinary expertise in areas such as intellectual property rights, medical ethics, tech law and regulatory compliance, more and more engineering graduates, doctors and pharmacists are enrolling to crack the Telangana Law Common Entrance Test.

According to data from the Telangana Law Common Entrance Test (TG LAWCET), engineers and doctors are signing up for legal careers in record numbers. A glance at three years of registrations reveals that 4,328 engineers applied for the three-year law degree entrance examination in 2022. This number jumped to 5,830 in 2023, 7,111 in 2024 and surged to 9,188 this year, which is a 112 per cent increase in last four years.

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Doctors’ registrations saw a 92.54 per cent jump from just 67 in 2022, the number went up to 76 in 2023 before increasing to 109 in 2024 and reaching 129 this year. Similarly, BPharmacy graduates’ registrations went up from 371 in 2022, 462 in 2023, 571 in 2024 to 690 in 2025, which is 86 per cent jump in registrations in the last four years.

According to law professors, the interdisciplinary migration is being driven by a combination of evolving job markets and expanding legal domains in various areas including technologies.

“After globalization, there are a lot of opportunities available for engineering graduates, particularly in the techno-legal field. Engineers with legal expertise are equipped to advise tech companies on protecting inventions and trademarks. There are several doctors who have already made it big in medico-legal field,” said TGCHE Chairman Prof V Balakista Reddy, an academic and legal expert in international law.

Overall, 41,223 candidates registered for TG LAWCET for three-year law programme this year with 12,663 applications coming from BCom graduates.

The TG LAWCET for three-year law degree will be held from 9.30 am to 11 am, and 12.30 pm to 2 pm on June 6 whereas the entrance test for five-year integrated degree course and TG PGLCET will be conducted from 4 pm to 5.30 pm on the same day. Candidates will not be allowed into the centres even if they are late by a minute.