ISM Dhanbad Engineering College

Can you tell me if Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad is among the top Engineering Colleges in India as I want to sure about it before applying for admission in it?

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The Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad is an educational institute of India which was established by British Indian Government on the lines of the Royal School of Mines - London, and was formally opened in 1926.

It admits its undergraduate students through Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced), previously IIT-JEE.

On May 25, 2016, the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Modi approved that a bill be introduced in Parliament for converting it into an IIT.

ISM has been ranked as the 7th best Engineering College of India in the Edu-Rand Rankings of 2015. The survey was done jointly by Edu, an Indian company and Rand Corporation, a non-profit American thinktank.

ISM was consistently ranked as the 11th best engineering college in India in Outlook magazine's surveys of 2011, 2012 and 2013, but fell to 22nd place in the 2014 survey.

International Research Collaborations

It has international collaboration with several foreign universities for conducting joint research.

Some such universities are- Imperial College London in UK, University of South Florida in US, Texas A&M University in US, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Technical University of Košice in Slovakia, Kōchi University in Japan, University of Lyon in France, FernUniversitaet Hagen in Germany, Pennsylvania State University in US, Camborne School of Mines in UK, CNR Frascati in Italy, University of Leeds in UK, KIT Japan, Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, Photon Factory in Japan, and European Commission, Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, Technische Universität in Germany, Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris, AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland, Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, Technical University of Crete in Greece, China University of Mining and Technology.

Collaborations of ISM are also with Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo in Brazil, ENSIT in University of Baghdad in Iraq, Wenzhou University in China, University of Perugia in Italy, Auburn University in US, Yazd University in Iran, University of Ostrava in Czech Republic, Saint Petersburg State University in Russia, Romanian Academy in Romania, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, and University of New South Wales in Australia, Tunisia, National United University in Taiwan, Eindhoven University of Technology in Netherlands, International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy, Colorado School of Mines in US, Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, Jazan University in Saudi Arabia.