Indian School of Mines: Statistics

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#2619 of 14,131 In the World
#828 of 5,830 In Asia
#73 of 876 In India
#1 of 20 In Jharkhand
#6 of 1,031 For Mining Engineering
Top50% For 95 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
39%*

* 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 16,504 scientific papers published and 209,566 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
16,504
Citations
209,566

Indian School of Mines majors

by publication & citation count

Engineering
14,286 / 186,399
Physics
12,810 / 163,566
Chemistry
11,030 / 150,533
Quantum and Particle physics
9,751 / 125,181
Environmental Science
9,460 / 132,225
Materials Science
8,693 / 119,644
Biology
7,788 / 112,907
Computer Science
7,639 / 83,402
Organic Chemistry
6,994 / 110,374
Geology
6,090 / 79,766
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
5,009 / 58,598
Optical Engineering
4,940 / 59,348
Electrical Engineering
4,875 / 54,913
Geography and Cartography
4,517 / 58,956
Metallurgical Engineering
3,759 / 57,374
Ecology
3,740 / 55,138
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
3,571 / 40,367
Mathematics
3,541 / 43,036
Paleontology
3,196 / 40,803
Telecommunications
3,081 / 29,841
Chemical Engineering
2,930 / 58,381
Mechanical Engineering
2,824 / 31,526
Statistics
2,666 / 32,775
Business
2,489 / 31,712
Physical chemistry
2,484 / 44,316
Biochemistry
2,417 / 44,273
History
2,310 / 30,896
Machine Learning
2,293 / 29,763
Archaeology
2,243 / 30,644
Nanotechnology
2,218 / 39,211
Medicine
2,205 / 27,221
Computer Networking
2,108 / 25,104
Environmental Management
2,021 / 35,441
Philosophy
1,960 / 18,320
Earth science and Geophysics
1,916 / 21,789
Electronic Engineering
1,900 / 18,565
Management
1,771 / 23,752
Structural Engineering
1,657 / 15,681
Geotechnical Engineering
1,632 / 20,546
Political Science
1,516 / 18,586

Annual publication & citation counts

Year Publications Citations
1991 37 79
1992 31 81
1993 28 71
1994 19 79
1995 20 73
1996 22 90
1997 24 63
1998 21 89
1999 21 92
2000 26 129
2001 33 92
2002 52 137
2003 32 184
2004 44 204
2005 66 288
2006 61 286
2007 61 390
2008 72 444
2009 110 628
2010 162 750
2011 201 1013
2012 343 1346
2013 409 2014
2014 574 2884
2015 929 4185
2016 1240 6860
2017 1403 9483
2018 1672 13328
2019 1519 18005
2020 1527 24121
2021 1781 33228
2022 1791 40273
2023 1613 43262
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 82)
    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 electrical engineer, and inventor. 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 84)
    Occupations
    metallurgistengineer
    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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