Know About the Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad: Standing tall since early decades of 20th century, the institute is steadily sailing through the millennium change and has emerged into one of the most prominent institution- Indian Institute of Technology IIT(ISM) with full bloom functioning of 18 branches of Engineering, Applied Sciences, Management Studies and Humanities. IIT (ISM) has centenary long credentials of outperforming achievements/ contributions in academia and the industry.
The Indian National Congress at its XVII Session of December 1901 passed a resolution stating that “in view of the fact that the tendency of recent legislation namely, The Indian Mines Act VII of 1901, is that all Indian mines must be kept under the supervision of mining experts, the Congress is of opinion that a Government College of Mining Engineering be established in some suitable place in India on the models of the Royal School of Mines in England, Mining Colleges of Japan and at other places in the continent”. The McPherson Committee formed by Govt. of India, recommended the establishment of an institution for imparting education in the fields of Mining and Geology, whose report, submitted in 1920, formed the main basis for the establishment of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
The Indian School of Mines was formally opened on 9th December 1926, by Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India to address the need for trained manpower related to mining activities in the country with disciplines of Mining and Applied Geology. In 1967 it was granted the status of a deemed to be university under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956. Since its establishment, IIT(ISM) has undergone a considerable expansion of its activities, and presently it can be considered as a total technology education institute.
NIRF & QS Ranking
The Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad moved up 2 spots in the overall category and become the 25 best higher education institute in the country as per the National Institute Ranking Framework(NIRF). However IIT Dhanbad ranking in the engineering institute slipped from 13th spot in 2018 NIRF ranking to 15th spot in 2019.
Undergraduate Courses Offered by the Institute
B.Tech (Bachelor of technology)
- Mining Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Science Electrical Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
- Engineering Physics
- Environmental Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mineral Engineering
- Mining Machinery Engineering.
Dual Degree (Integrated M.Tech)
- Applied Geology
- Applied Geophysics
- Mathematics & Computing
Ways to Enter in IIT Dhanbad
- JEE (Advanced Joint Entrance Examination) for the B.Tech programme
- GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) for M.Tech and PhD programmes
- JAM (Joint Admission Test for M.Sc.)
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