The Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad is an educational institute of India. It was established by British Indian Government on 9 December 1926

ISM to IIT was the movement started by the students of ISM Dhanbad.

The Union Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley, during his budget speech in Parliament on 28 February 2015, had proposed to convert ISM Dhanbad into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

The proposal for conversion of ISM into an IIT had been strongly recommended in 1994 by a Government Committee

However, no action was taken by the Government over the proposal.

ISM has been ranked as the 7th best Engineering College of India in the Edu-Rand Rankings of 2015.

ISM was consistently ranked as the 11th best engineering college in India in Outlook magazine's surveys of 2011, 2012 and 2013, but fell to 22nd place in the 2014 survey.

Contact address

Indian School of Mines
ISM Dhanbad Internal Road
Sardar Patel Nagar
Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004