Indian School of Mines: Statistics

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#2673 of 14,131 In the World
#850 of 5,830 In Asia
#75 of 876 In India
#1 of 20 In Jharkhand
#7 of 1,000 For Mining Engineering
Top50% For 98 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
12%*

* 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 18,674 scientific papers published and 303,940 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
18,674
Citations
303,940

Indian School of Mines majors

by publication & citation count

Engineering
15,965 / 265,944
Physics
14,266 / 232,242
Chemistry
12,323 / 212,204
Quantum and Particle physics
10,744 / 175,871
Environmental Science
10,599 / 193,106
Materials Science
9,677 / 167,275
Biology
8,667 / 158,703
Computer Science
8,508 / 126,638
Organic Chemistry
7,691 / 151,100
Geology
6,785 / 116,570
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
5,634 / 89,780
Electrical Engineering
5,396 / 78,956
Optical Engineering
5,365 / 80,532
Geography and Cartography
5,035 / 87,670
Metallurgical Engineering
4,136 / 79,522
Ecology
4,120 / 83,519
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
4,018 / 63,145
Mathematics
3,868 / 63,458
Paleontology
3,474 / 57,921
Telecommunications
3,360 / 43,808
Chemical Engineering
3,215 / 79,151
Mechanical Engineering
3,084 / 46,120
Statistics
2,877 / 48,548
Business
2,793 / 49,377
Biochemistry
2,704 / 60,100
Physical chemistry
2,681 / 60,247
History
2,531 / 46,169
Machine Learning
2,507 / 47,261
Nanotechnology
2,495 / 53,966
Medicine
2,490 / 40,987
Archaeology
2,450 / 45,713
Computer Networking
2,259 / 35,962
Philosophy
2,259 / 28,601
Environmental Management
2,229 / 51,403
Earth science and Geophysics
2,090 / 31,081
Electronic Engineering
2,060 / 26,464
Management
1,964 / 35,919
Structural Engineering
1,843 / 23,220
Geotechnical Engineering
1,802 / 30,641
Political Science
1,709 / 30,618

Annual publication & citation counts

Year Publications Citations
1992 34 103
1993 31 99
1994 22 94
1995 20 100
1996 26 138
1997 25 80
1998 24 126
1999 24 121
2000 26 159
2001 36 124
2002 56 183
2003 39 246
2004 52 276
2005 63 354
2006 66 357
2007 73 479
2008 81 535
2009 119 741
2010 182 918
2011 240 1249
2012 382 1673
2013 458 2622
2014 646 3488
2015 1024 5397
2016 1312 8306
2017 1463 11557
2018 1771 16071
2019 1583 21253
2020 1654 29318
2021 1897 39752
2022 1873 46997
2023 1674 52560
2024 1199 54618
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 83)
    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
    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 85)
    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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