Indian School of Mines

The Indian School of Mines (ISM) is a deemed university functioning under the Government of India. It is located in the mineral-rich belt of India in the city of Dhanbad. It was established in 1926 on the lines of the Royal School of Mines, London by the then British India Government. What started as an institution to impart mining education has graduated into a multi department technical university of international acclaim. The institute admits undergraduate students through the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) Advanced Exam.

The Indian School of Mines is the only institute of its kind in India that caters to the human resource needs of the nation in the areas of Mining, Petroleum, Mining Machinery, Mineral engineering and Earth Sciences besides training manpower in the related disciplines of Management, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, applied Science and Humanities and Social Sciences. It offers a host of programmes like B. Tech.,Integrated M.Sc., Integrated M.Sc.tech, Dual degree M.Tech,Integrated M.Tech, M. Tech.,M.Sc, M. Sc. Tech.and M.BA. In addition the School offers M. Phil. and full as well as part-time Ph. D programmes, while also awarding D.Sc. as the highest degree of academic achievement. The institute currently has 17 departments and 5 inter-disciplinary centres.

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