The Indian School of Mines (ISM) (Hindi: भारतीय खनि विद्यापीठ विश्वविद्यालय) is a fully residential and co-educational university located in the mineral-rich belt of India in the city of Dhanbad, Jharkhand. It was established in 1926 on the lines of the Royal School of Mines, London. What started as an institution to impart mining education has graduated into a full-fledged technical institution of international acclaim offering a host of programmes like B. Tech., M. Tech., M. Sc. Tech.,integrated M.Sc., integrated M.Sc.tech. and MBA. 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 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.

 

Placement

Placements have been generally 100% in most branches with the average offers to earth science engineering students comparable to other noteworthy institutions in the country. Its reputation in earth science has attracted multinational companies such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto Group, ArcelorMittal, Schlumberger, Shell, BG Group, Halliburton, Cairn Energy etc. to the campus. The major PSUs of the country such as ONGC, DRDO, OIL, CIL, SAIL, NTPC etc. also visit the campus to recruit. India's biggest corporate houses such as the Tata Group, the Jindal Group, the Essar Group and Reliance have traditionally recruited large number of students from the ISM.

 

The non earth science students have proved their mettle in companies such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Samsung, etc. Companies have started to recognize the potential of such students. Today more non earth science companies visit the campus than earth science companies.