Indian School of Mines: Statistics

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#2197 of 14,131 In the World
#606 of 5,830 In Asia
#53 of 876 In India
#1 of 20 In Jharkhand
#9 of 1,031 For Mining Engineering
Top50% For 101 other topics
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Quick Review

Enrollment
2,000
Type
Non-profit
Funding
Public-private
partnership
Highest Degree
Bachelor
Website
iitism.ac.in
Acceptance rate
17%*

* The Indian School of Mines is among the institutions that don't provide data on acceptance rates. This might happen because the university has programs where applicants only need to meet admission requirements to enroll and don't necessarily compete with others.

We estimate the above acceptance rate based on admission statistics of closely ranked nearby universities with similar research profiles that do publish such data.

Acceptance rate & Admissions

Enrollment2,000

Research profile

Indian School of Mines is a world-class research university with 19,299 scientific papers published and 341,478 citations received. The research profile covers a range of fields, including Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Quantum and Particle physics, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Biology, Computer Science, Organic Chemistry, and Geology.

Publications
19,299
Citations
341,478

Indian School of Mines majors

by publication & citation count

Engineering
16,450 / 297,984
Physics
14,688 / 260,189
Chemistry
12,669 / 239,083
Quantum and Particle physics
11,032 / 196,416
Environmental Science
10,849 / 216,970
Materials Science
9,936 / 188,344
Biology
8,923 / 179,172
Computer Science
8,798 / 140,670
Organic Chemistry
7,900 / 170,676
Geology
6,938 / 131,480
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
5,791 / 101,457
Electrical Engineering
5,555 / 87,369
Optical Engineering
5,447 / 89,391
Geography and Cartography
5,147 / 98,760
Metallurgical Engineering
4,213 / 89,678
Ecology
4,211 / 94,904
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
4,168 / 70,342
Mathematics
3,951 / 70,965
Paleontology
3,528 / 64,847
Telecommunications
3,431 / 47,957
Chemical Engineering
3,286 / 89,640
Mechanical Engineering
3,146 / 51,947
Statistics
2,929 / 54,497
Business
2,900 / 55,327
Biochemistry
2,813 / 68,159
Physical chemistry
2,718 / 67,757
Machine Learning
2,580 / 53,017
Nanotechnology
2,579 / 61,080
Medicine
2,578 / 46,401
History
2,578 / 52,258
Archaeology
2,495 / 51,742
Philosophy
2,330 / 32,040
Computer Networking
2,297 / 38,732
Environmental Management
2,277 / 58,912
Earth science and Geophysics
2,126 / 34,796
Electronic Engineering
2,114 / 28,823
Management
2,040 / 39,664
Structural Engineering
1,879 / 26,614
Geotechnical Engineering
1,830 / 35,020
Political Science
1,757 / 34,647

Annual publication & citation counts

Year Publications Citations
1993 31 100
1994 22 94
1995 20 100
1996 26 137
1997 25 80
1998 24 126
1999 24 122
2000 26 160
2001 36 124
2002 56 183
2003 39 246
2004 52 276
2005 63 355
2006 66 359
2007 73 479
2008 81 535
2009 119 742
2010 182 921
2011 240 1251
2012 382 1673
2013 459 2622
2014 646 3488
2015 1024 5398
2016 1312 8309
2017 1463 11558
2018 1771 16080
2019 1583 21251
2020 1654 29317
2021 1897 39755
2022 1873 47020
2023 1674 52606
2024 1268 55119
2025 734 48614
Academic rankings

Tuition

The tuition table for Indian School of Mines gives an overview of costs but prices are approximate and subject to change and don't include accommodation, textbooks, or living expenses. The costs of programs might differ significantly for local and international students. The only source of truth for current numbers is the university's official website.

Program Duration Tuition Cost (INR)
B.Tech 4 years 200,000
M.Tech 2 years 100,000
M.Sc 2 years 50,000
MBA 2 years 150,000
Ph.D 3-5 years 30,000 per semester

Notable alumni

  1. Harsh Gupta

    Harsh Gupta
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Years
    1942-.. (age 84)
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Harsh Kumar Gupta is an Indian earth scientist and seismologist, known for his pioneering work on estimation of reservoir-induced earthquakes. He is a former vice chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) and a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad. A recipient of the 1983 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest Indian award in the science and technology category, and the 2008 Waldo E. Smith Award, Gupta was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2006.

  2. Deblina Sarkar

    Deblina Sarkar
    Born in
    India Flag India
    Enrolled in the Indian School of Mines
    Studied in 2004-2008
    Occupations
    researcher
    Biography

    Deblina Sarkar is an Indian electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Kolkata, West Bengal. She is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AT&T Career Development Chair Professor of the MIT Media Lab. Sarkar has been internationally recognized for her invention of an ultra thin quantum mechanical transistor that can be scaled to nano-sizes and used in nanoelectronic biosensors. As the principal investigator of the Nano Cybernetic Biotrek Lab at MIT, Sarkar leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers towards bridging the gap between nanotechnology and synthetic biology to build new nano-devices and life-machine interfacing technologies with which to probe and enhance biological function.

  3. T. C. Rao

    T. C. Rao
    Years
    1940-.. (age 86)
    Occupations
    engineermetallurgist
    Biography

    Tadimety Chakrapani Rao, also known as T.C. Rao, is an Indian mineral processing scientist and researcher.

General information

Alternative names ISM
इंडियन स्कूल ऑफ़ माइन
Founded 1926
Motto Awake, arise, strive for the highest and be in light

Location and contacts

Address Dhanbad
India
City population 1,162,000
Phone +91 (326) 220 5403
Fax +91 (326) 220 2380

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