Can you tell me which is better between Jadavpur University and ISM Dhanbad as I want to pursue B Tech from there, please help me with this?

Both, Jadavpur University and ISM Dhanbad are very good colleges with their own strengths & weaknesses & hence, need not be compared directly.

Jadavpur University

Jadavpur University is a public state university located in Kolkata and established in 1955. It has two campuses: the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake.

Jadavpur University has been ranked as the 11th 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.

It has also been ranked 80 among the BRICS nations by TIMES Higher Education Rankings which is also seventh in India. Moreover, it was ranked between 501-600 in the world rankings by THE.

Notable Alumni
Saroj Ghose,Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Former Director of Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Kolkata.
Arnab Ray,Associate Professor, University of Maryland, renowned Indian blogger and author.
Samir Das, Professor, Stony Brook University.
Dipankar Chatterji, Chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, recipient of Padma Shri and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Swadesh Chatterjee (IEE 1969), Padma Bhushan co-founder of the U.S.-India Friendship Council.
Suman Chakraborty, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardee, researcher in nanofluidics
K.S. Dasgupta, Director, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Subir Raha, former Director, ONGC
Somnath Dasgupta, VC, Assam University,faculty at IISER Kolkata
Avinandan Mukherjee, Dean, College of Business, Clayton State University, Atlanta, USA
Sugato Chakravarty, faculty, Purdue University
Amitava Chattopadhyay
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, author, critic, performer
Arundhati Bhattacharya, First woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India
Ramaranjan Mukherji - former Chancellor - Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupathi and Padma Shri winner
Rituparno Ghosh,Filmmaker/Actor/Screenwriter
Anupam Roy,Singer/Music Director
Parambrata Chatterjee,Actor
Debalina Majumder,Documentary Director
Biplab Ganguli,Veteran Doordarshan Newscaster
Kajal Bandyopadhyay, poet
Neel Mukherjee, novelist


ISM Dhanbad
The Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) is an institute of national importance. It was a Deemed University under Section 3 of the UGC Act before it got converted into an Institute of National Importance under the autonomous Indian Institutes of Technology system and became Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad


IIT (ISM) was 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 think-tank.

IIT (ISM) has been ranked at 201 positions among BRICS nations' by QS World University Rankings in 2016.

Notable Alumni
Waman Bapuji Metre- Received Padma Bhushan in 1968. Considered Pioneer of the Indian oil industry, played a major role in establishment of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. Belonged to 1st batch of ISM (1926–30)

Gulshan Lal Tandon- Received Padma Bhushan in 1986. Former CMD of Coal India

Dr. Harsh Gupta- Received Padma Shri in 2006. Earth scientist and former member of the National Disaster Management Authority - having rank of Union Minister of State. Former Secretary to Govt of India

Dr. Rabi Narayan Bastia- Received Padma Shri in 2007. Discovered the Krishna Godavari Basin. Serves as Adjunct Professor at IIT (ISM)

Dr. Vijay Prasad Dimri- earth scientist received Padma Shri in 2010