64 candidates of the Master of Cyber Law & Information Security, Batch 2025–27, trained at India's first national centre for techno-legal studies, fluent in the DPDP Act and the SOC dashboard, the courtroom and the kill chain. One cohort. Two disciplines. Zero translation loss.
01 · The Centre
The Rajiv Gandhi National Cyber Law Centre (RGNCLC) was established in 2006 at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal, by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now the Ministry of Education), Government of India. It is the first centre in the nation built to confront the techno-legal questions of cyberspace.
Its flagship Master of Cyber Law & Information Security (MCLIS) is one of the very few master's degrees in the country that trains a single professional to read a statute and a packet capture with equal ease. Admission is through an All-India Entrance Test, drawing engineers, lawyers, scientists, and commerce graduates into one interdisciplinary cohort.
The Centre works alongside the Ministry of Electronics & IT, DSCI, and the Ministry of Finance, keeping its classrooms one step behind no regulator and no attacker.
02 · Domains of Practice
From constitutional questions of privacy to the configuration of a SIEM: the curriculum and the candidates span the full governance surface of a modern enterprise.
03 · Program Structure
Industry ReadyHired, onboarded, contributing from week one
04 · Faculty at RGNCLC
05 · Cohort Composition
A cohort where lawyers debug and engineers draft, the ratio recruiters actually need on hybrid GRC and privacy teams.
Counted from the qualifying degree recorded on each candidate profile, so this chart always matches the registry below.
The Cohort in One Frame
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06 · Candidate Registry
Search by name, shortlist by practice area, and open any candidate card for the full profile with practice areas, experience, and LinkedIn.
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07 · The Case for Hiring
Frameworks, statutes, and tooling covered before day one, so onboarding is measured in days rather than quarters.
One professional who can brief counsel and configure controls without an interpreter in between.
Trained across ISO, NIST, SOC 2, and sectoral mandates, so audit season stops being a fire drill.
Grounded in AI governance and ISO 42001 as the regulation wave arrives, not after it.
Rotate the same hire across privacy, TPRM, forensics, and audit as your risk map shifts.
Compliance built into engineering decisions at the design stage, where it is cheapest.
Trained on live regulatory problems with MeitY, DSCI, and industry, not just casebooks.
Documentation, evidence, and defensibility as instinct, the habits regulators reward.
08 · Placement Protocol
You register interest with the Placement Coordination Committee and tell us the roles you are hiring for.
The Committee approaches organisations hiring in privacy, GRC, and security, and opens the season with them directly.
Recruiter shares roles, domains, and compensation structure.
The PCC circulates the JD and returns curated candidate profiles.
Slots coordinated end to end by the PCC, on campus or remote, through assessments, interviews, and rollout of offers.
09 · Legacy Recruiters & Internship Hosts
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Internship hosts include Grant Thornton · Ikigai Law · BHEL · NFSU · Payatu · SecurityBulls · CyberSRC · i2e Consulting · Chandhiok & Mahajan, Advocates and Solicitors, among others.
10 · The Campus & Life @ NLIU
The Kerwa Dam Road campus in Bhopal, where the moot halls, the security labs, and the batch that will staff your next audit all share an address.
The Cell for Law & Technology's annual fair: talk shows on cybersecurity trends, round tables with AZB & Partners and MeitY, and panels on the Draft DPDP Rules with Deloitte, SBI, and L&S.
Legal and regulatory frameworks for private-sector space activity, led by industry counsel from Digantara, the kind of frontier the Centre treats as a Tuesday.
11 · Open a Requisition
The Placement Coordination Committee handles everything from JD circulation to interview logistics. Write to us and the cohort is interview-ready.
Student Placement Coordination Committee