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ABSTRACT The professionalism refers to the level of competence, expertise, and ethical behavior of individual teacher educators. The professionalism of teacher educators explains about their expertise, knowledge, skills and commitment to promoting the effective teaching and learning in the field of education. Teacher educators play a crucial role to prepare future teachers and mould their professional development. The present study was conducted on 320 teacher educators of 40 B.Ed. colleges of education, Telangana state. The objectives of the study were to find the professionalism among the teacher educators with respect to gender, management and teaching methodology. The simple random technique was used for data collection. The results revealed that there was a significant difference between male and female teacher educators in professionalism. However, there was no significant difference between government and private teacher educators with various teaching methodologies.