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

Indian School of Mines has 18 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences and Management programs.

Ranking-

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

The survey was done jointly by Edu, an Indian company and Rand Corporation, a non-profit American thinktank.

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.

It did not participate in Outlook's 2015 survey.

Admissions to the MBA program is done through the Common Admission Test (CAT).

Departments and centres-

ISM has the following departments and centres:

Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electronics Engineering
Department of Environmental Engineering
Department of Fuel and Mineral Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mining Engineering
Department of Mining Machinery Engineering
Department of Petroleum Engineering

Applied Sciences

Department of Applied Chemistry
Department of Applied Geology
Department of Applied Geophysics
Department of Applied Mathematics
Department of Applied Physics

Social Sciences

Department of Humanities and Social Science

Business

Department of Management Studies (Formerly Industrial Engineering & Management)

Centres

Centre of Mining Environment
Computer Centre
Center for Renewable Energy
Center of Societal Mission

Contact address

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