The Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad is a public engineering and research institution was a Deemed University before it got converted into an Institute of National Importance under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961.

It has 18 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences and Management programs.

It was ranked as the 8th 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 think-tank.

It has been ranked at 201-250 position among BRICS nations' and 51-100 among Mineral and Mining institutes by QS World University Rankings in 2016

Departments and Centres

IIT (ISM) has the following departments and centers:
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

Basic 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 Detail:
IIT Dhanbad
Sardar Patel Nagar,
Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004, India
+91 326 223 5004