The Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad is an educational institute of India and was established by British Indian Government on the lines of the Royal School of Mines - London, and was formally opened in 1926. It started as an institution to impart mining education, and has grown into a technical institution with various departments.

It admits its undergraduate students through Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced), previously IIT-JEE.

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

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

Academic Programmes

4 years Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)
Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Engineering Physics, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mineral Engineering, Mining Engineering, Mining Machinery Engineering, Petroleum Engineering.

5 years Dual Degree (B.Tech, M.Tech)
Computer Science and Engineering, Mineral Engineering and Material Technology, Mineral Engineering and Mineral Resource Management, Mining Engineering

5 years Integrated Master of Technology (M.Tech)
Mathematics and Computing, Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics.

5 years Integrated Master of Science (M.Sc)
Applied Physics, Applied Chemistry.

5 years Integrated Master of Science Technology (M.Sc.Tech)
Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics. (5 Year M.Sc.Tech programme has been now replaced by 5 Year Integrated M.Tech)

3 years Master of Science Technology (M.Sc.Tech)
Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics.

2 years Master of Technology (M.Tech)
Chemical Engineering, Computer Application, Computer Science & Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Engineering Geology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Fuel Engineering, Geomatics, Industrial Engineering and Management, Maintenance Engineering and Tribology, Mechanical Engineering, Mineral Engineering, Mineral Exploration, Petroleum Exploration, Mining Machinery Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Power System Engineering,power electronics and electrical drives,Mine electrical engineering, Underground Space Technology.

2 years Master of Science (M.Sc)
Appllied Physics, Applied Chemistry, Mathematics and Computing.

2 years Master of Business Administration
MBA.

1 year Master of Philosophy (M.Phil)
Applied Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, English.

PhD
All engineering disciplines, interdisciplinary areas, science disciplines and the humanities and social sciences.