The Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad is an educational institute of India. It is located in Dhanbad.

It was established on 9 December 1926 by British Indian Government

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

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

In 2009, ISM got the approval of its Finance Committee, Executive Board and General Council, proposing its conversion to an IIT.

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

ISM was the only non-IIT institute which admitted IIT-JEE Advanced qualified students to its various undergraduate and dual degree programmes

Once admitted into ISM or an IIT through IIT-JEE (Advanced) exam, a student was not permitted to appear in the exam again, and hence could not take admission in an IIT next year (as per rules of the JEE Advanced exam) In this respect, Govt of India treated ISM at par with IITs.

ISM was the only institute of India selected by NDC to be converted into an IIT in the 12th Five Year Plan.

Contact details-

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