Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad

The Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, commonly IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, is one of India's oldest technical universities, located at Dhanbad in the mineral-rich Jharkhand region of eastern India and established by the British Indian government on the lines of the Royal School of Mines in London.印度理工学院丹巴德分校（印度矿业学院，通常简称 IIT (ISM) Dhanbad）是印度最古老的理工院校之一，坐落于印度东部矿产丰富的贾坎德邦丹巴德，由英属印度政府参照伦敦皇家矿业学院的模式创设。

It was formally inaugurated on December 9, 1926 by Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India, grew into a full technical institution with eighteen departments, and became the third oldest institute converted into an IIT when the 1961 Institutes of Technology Act was amended in 2016.它于 1926 年 12 月 9 日由时任印度总督埃尔温勋爵正式揭幕，现已发展为设有 18 个系的完整理工院校，并在 2016 年《理工学院法》修订后成为第三个转制为 IIT 的古老学院。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 701-710, it did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education rankings, it is 1669th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and OpenAlex records 22,661 works and 887,677 citations.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校处于 701-710 区间，未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名，在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1669；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 22,661 项、累计被引 887,677 次。

History

• The idea of a government mining college was voiced in December 1901, when the Indian National Congress at its seventeenth session passed a resolution calling for a college of mining engineering on the model of the Royal School of Mines in England.设立官办矿业学院的构想早在 1901 年 12 月就已提出，当时印度国民大会党在第十七届年会上通过决议，呼吁仿照英国皇家矿业学院创办矿业工程学院。

• The McPherson Committee appointed by the British Indian government recommended in its 1920 report the creation of an institution for mining and geology education, a recommendation reinforced by the Indian Mine Managers' Association in 1924.英属印度政府设立的麦克弗森委员会在 1920 年报告中建议创办一所矿业与地质教育机构，1924 年印度矿井经理协会又对此加以呼应。

• These proposals formed the main basis for establishing the Indian School of Mines & Applied Geology at Dhanbad, which was formally inaugurated on December 9, 1926 by Lord Irwin, the Viceroy of India.这些提议构成了在丹巴德设立印度矿业与应用地质学院的主要依据；1926 年 12 月 9 日，印度总督埃尔温勋爵为其正式揭幕。

• From 1926 to 1946 the new school was led by Professor F. W. Sharpley, who shaped its early mining and applied geology curriculum.1926 年至 1946 年，新学院由 F. W. 夏普利教授主持，奠定了其早期采矿与应用地质课程的框架。

• The institute opened with courses focused mainly on mining engineering and applied geology, serving the coalfields that surround Dhanbad.建校之初的课程集中于采矿工程与应用地质，服务于丹巴德周边的煤田。

• In 1957 the institute began offering courses in petroleum engineering and applied geophysics, and its name was simplified to the Indian School of Mines.1957 年，学院开设石油工程与应用地球物理课程，校名随之简化为印度矿业学院。

• Until 1967 it operated as a government institute whose faculty were recruited through the Union Public Service Commission.直到 1967 年，它一直作为政府学院运作，教师经联邦公职委员会招募。

• In 1967 the University Grants Commission granted it university status under the University Grants Commission Act of 1956, marking its transition to an autonomous academic institution.1967 年，大学拨款委员会依据 1956 年《大学拨款委员会法》授予其大学地位，标志着它向自主学术机构的转变。

• Courses in mining machinery engineering and mineral engineering were introduced in 1975 and 1976 respectively, extending the institute's reach across the mining value chain.采矿机械工程与矿物工程课程分别于 1975 年和 1976 年开设，把学院的触角延伸到采矿价值链的各个环节。

• In 1977 it was among the few institutes in India to start a course in industrial engineering and management, catering to the metallurgy, mining and manufacturing industries.1977 年，它是印度最早开设工业工程与管理课程的高校之一，以服务冶金、采矿与制造业。

• From 1996 to 1997 the school came directly under the financial and administrative control of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, with pay scales aligned to those of the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management systems.1996 至 1997 年间，学院转入人力资源开发部的直属财政与行政管理，薪酬待遇与印度理工学院、印度管理学院体系看齐。

• In 1997 the institute began admitting undergraduates through the IIT Joint Entrance Examination conducted jointly with the IITs, aligning its intake with the IIT system.1997 年，学院开始通过与其余 IIT 联合举办的 IIT 联合入学考试招收本科生，使其生源与 IIT 体系并轨。

• In 1998 courses in electronics engineering and computer science and engineering were introduced, and in 1999 a bachelor of technology programme in mechanical engineering followed.1998 年，学院增设电子工程以及计算机科学与工程课程；1999 年，又开设机械工程技术学士项目。

• In 2006 the institute added fourteen new courses, prominently electrical engineering and environmental engineering at undergraduate level, alongside integrated MSc programmes in applied physics, applied chemistry and mathematics and computing.2006 年，学院新增 14 门课程，本科层次以电气工程与环境工程最为突出，同时开设应用物理、应用化学与数学计算方向的理学综合硕士项目。

• Integrated MSc Tech courses in applied geology and applied geophysics started the same year, a bachelor of technology in chemical engineering followed in 2011, civil engineering arrived in 2013 and engineering physics in 2014.同年开设应用地质与应用地球物理方向的综合 MSc Tech 课程；化学工程技术学士于 2011 年增设，土木工程于 2013 年、工程物理于 2014 年相继落地。

• A government committee had proposed upgrading ISM Dhanbad to an institution of national importance as early as 1994, though no action followed at the time.早在 1994 年，政府委员会就曾提议将丹巴德印度矿业学院升格为国家重点机构，但当时并未付诸行动。

• A conversion proposal entered the twelfth five-year plan cleared by the National Development Council on December 27, 2012, and was put before the IIT Council on January 7, 2013.转制提案进入 2012 年 12 月 27 日经国家发展委员会审议的第十二个五年计划，并于 2013 年 1 月 7 日提交 IIT 理事会。

• Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed the upgrade in his budget speech in Parliament on February 28, 2015, and the Union Cabinet approved the conversion on May 25, 2016.联邦财政部长阿伦·贾特利于 2015 年 2 月 28 日在议会预算演说中提出升格建议；2016 年 5 月 25 日，联邦内阁批准转制。

• The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 19, 2016, passed without opposition on July 25, cleared unanimously by the Rajya Sabha on August 2, and received presidential assent with Gazette notification in 2016.2016 年 7 月 19 日，《理工学院（修正）法案》提交人民院，7 月 25 日获得无反对通过，8 月 2 日联邦院一致通过，随后获总统批准并于同年刊宪。

• The amendment conferred the Indian Institute of Technology title on the erstwhile Indian School of Mines, making it the third oldest institute converted into an IIT after the 2001 conversion at Roorkee and the 2011 conversion of the Banaras Hindu University campus at Varanasi.该修正案将印度理工学院之名授予原印度矿业学院，使其成为继 2001 年鲁尔基转制、2011 年贝拿勒斯印度大学瓦拉纳西校区转制之后第三个转为 IIT 的古老学院。

Academics

• IIT (ISM) Dhanbad offers programmes in engineering, pure sciences, management and the humanities, organized across eighteen departments and five interdisciplinary centres.IIT (ISM) 丹巴德开设工程、纯科学、管理与人文课程，下设 18 个系与 5 个跨学科中心。

• The Department of Mining Engineering holds the status of a Centre of Advanced Studies awarded by the University Grants Commission, reflecting its standing as the institute's founding discipline.采矿工程系持有大学拨款委员会授予的「高级研究中心」地位，体现了其作为学院创校学科的地位。

• Undergraduate admission runs through the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced), postgraduate engineering admission through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, and MBA admission through the Common Admission Test.本科招生经由 JEE 高级考试，工科研究生经由工程硕士能力测验（GATE），MBA 则通过共同入学考试（CAT）录取。

• Degree structures include the four-year BTech, the five-year integrated BTech-MTech and BS-MS, the four-year integrated BSc-BEd, two-year MTech and MSc, the three-year integrated MSc-MTech, the two-year MBA and a two-year MA in digital humanities and social sciences.学位结构包括四年制技术学士、五年制本硕连读（技术学士-技术硕士与理学学士-理学硕士）、四年制理学学士-教育学士、两年制技术硕士与理学硕士、三年制综合 MSc-MTech、两年制 MBA 以及两年制数字人文与社会科学文学硕士。

• Doctoral study and post-doctoral fellowships complete the academic ladder, supported by the institute's research centres.博士培养与博士后研究员职位补齐学术阶梯，由学院各研究中心支撑。

• An eight-storey Central Research Facility has been set up as a centre of national importance, concentrating shared instrumentation for the eighteen departments.一座八层中央研究设施作为国家级重要中心建成，为 18 个系集中共享大型仪器。

• The institute works as a think tank for eleven ministries of the Government of India, drawing on its mining, energy and earth science expertise.该学院担任印度政府 11 个部委的智库，依托其在采矿、能源与地球科学方面的专长。

• The Environmental Information System centre at the Centre of Mining Environment was established in 1991 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests for mining environment information.采矿环境中心下属的环境信息系统中心由环境与森林部于 1991 年设立，专责矿区环境信息。

• The Australia India Clean Coal and Energy Technology Centre is a joint venture with Curtin University of Australia, hosted in the Fuel, Minerals and Metallurgical Department building.澳印清洁煤与能源技术中心是该院与澳大利亚科廷大学的合办机构，设于燃料、矿物与冶金系楼内。

• An Industry Institute Interaction Facility in Kolkata hosts campus interviews and international conferences, with a second facility set up in Delhi.加尔各答的产研互动中心承接校园招聘与国际会议，德里设有第二处同类设施。

• The institute has around 10,000 students, comprising 3,732 undergraduates, 1,951 postgraduates and 2,418 doctoral students, a doctoral share among the largest in the Indian system.该学院约有 10,000 名学生，包括 3,732 名本科生、1,951 名研究生与 2,418 名博士生，博士生占比在印度高校体系中位居前列。

• Teaching in mining engineering remains anchored in the coalfields of Jharkhand, with applied geology and geophysics extending to petroleum and mineral exploration.采矿工程教学始终扎根贾坎德邦的煤田，应用地质与地球物理则延伸至石油与矿产勘探。

• The MBA programme of the Department of Management Studies was ranked 48th in the 2025 National Institutional Ranking Framework.管理研究系的 MBA 项目在 2025 年国家机构排名框架中位列第 48。

• Digital humanities, introduced through the two-year MA, marks the institute's expansion beyond its engineering core.通过两年制文学硕士引入的数字人文，标志着该院向工程核心之外的拓展。

• Placement outcomes in the 2023-24 season saw more than 750 students placed by February 7, 2024, with an average package of 13.13 lakh rupees and a top offer of 60 lakh rupees.2023-24 招聘季截至 2024 年 2 月 7 日，超过 750 名学生落实工作，平均年薪 131.3 万卢比，最高录用达 600 万卢比。

• Recruiting companies include Google, Microsoft, Accenture, Siemens, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Jaguar and Land Rover.招聘企业包括谷歌、微软、埃森哲、西门子、塔塔钢铁、塔塔汽车、捷豹与路虎。

• Research breadth now spans clean coal, mining environment, geophysics and data science, in keeping with the institute's think tank role for eleven ministries.研究广度现已涵盖清洁煤、矿区环境、地球物理与数据科学，与其面向 11 个部委的智库角色相称。

Campus

• The total campus measures around 444.98 acres, with the main campus of about 218 acres located at Sardar Patel Nagar in Dhanbad.校园总面积约 444.98 英亩，其中约 218 英亩的主校区位于丹巴德的萨达尔·帕特尔纳加尔。

• A further 226.98-acre extension campus is being developed at Nirsa, easing pressure on the historic core.另有约 226.98 英亩的扩展校区正在尼尔萨开发，缓解历史核心区的压力。

• Dhanbad itself sits in the heart of the Jharia coalfield, India's most important coal mining region, which shaped the institute's founding mission in 1926.丹巴德地处贾里亚煤田腹地——印度最重要的采煤区，这也塑造了该学院 1926 年的创校使命。

• The heritage building of the 1926 founding survives at the centre of the campus alongside the Oval Garden and Ruby Park.1926 年建校时期的历史建筑仍保留在校园中心，与椭圆花园和红宝石公园相伴。

• Eleven hostels named after precious stones such as Diamond, Sapphire, Amber, Ruby, Opal, Jasper and Aquamarine house the students, four for women and seven for men, each system including one international hostel.11 栋宿舍以钻石、蓝宝石、琥珀、红宝石、蛋白石、碧玉与海蓝宝石等宝石命名，4 栋供女生、7 栋供男生，两类各含一栋国际生宿舍。

• Hostel capacities range from 400 to 2,200 students, and some of the residences date back nine decades, making them among the oldest student housing in the Indian Institutes of Technology system.宿舍容量从 400 人到 2,200 人不等，部分宿舍已有约九十年历史，是印度理工学院体系中最古老的学生宿舍之一。

• The Student Activity Center, the Main Canteen and the popular Ram Dhani gather campus social life, and the library basement hosts branded food outlets including Domino's and KFC.学生活动中心、主食堂与颇受欢迎的「拉姆达尼」聚集起校园社交生活；图书馆地下层还引进了达美乐与肯德基等餐饮品牌。

• The Penman Auditorium hosts convocations and cultural evenings, and the Sports and Physical Education Centre organizes the institute's sports clubs.彭曼礼堂承办毕业典礼与文化晚会；体育运动中心则组织学院的各体育俱乐部。

• Geographically the campus sits amid working collieries, giving fieldwork in mining engineering and applied geology an immediate industrial context.校园四面皆是生产中的煤矿，为采矿工程与应用地质的田野实习提供了即时的工业场景。

• Kolkata, the nearest metropolis, lies about 260 kilometres away and hosts the institute's industry interaction facility.最近的大都市加尔各答距此约 260 公里，学院的产研互动中心即设于该市。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings IIT (ISM) Dhanbad is placed 701-710, and it held the same band in the 2026 edition.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，IIT (ISM) 丹巴德处于 701-710 区间，在 2026 年版中也处于同一区间。

• It did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, though it stood at 1001-1200 in the 2023 edition and 251-300 in Asia in 2022.它未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，但 2023 年版位于 1001-1200 区间，2022 年在亚洲排名第 251-300 区间。

• QS placed it 281-290 in Asia on the 2023 rankings, and it is 1669th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.QS 2023 年排名将其列于亚洲第 281-290 区间；在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，它位列第 1669。

• It did not enter the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex records 22,661 research works and 887,677 citations.它未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 22,661 项、累计被引 887,677 次。

• In the 2025 National Institutional Ranking Framework it ranked 15th among Indian engineering institutions, 22nd in research and 35th overall, the clearest statement of its domestic standing.在 2025 年国家机构排名框架中，它位列印度工科院校第 15、研究第 22、综合第 35，这是其国内地位最直接的表述。

• Its Department of Management Studies added a 48th-place NIRF ranking in management in 2025.其管理研究系在 2025 年 NIRF 管理类别中位列第 48。

• Alumni honours include the Padma Shri for geoscientist Rabi Narayan Bastia, geophysical scientist Vijay Prasad Dimri and seismologist Harsh Gupta, and the Padma Bhushan for oil industry pioneer Waman Bapuji Metre and Coal India leader Gulshan Lal Tandon.校友荣誉包括授予地球科学家拉比·纳拉扬·巴斯蒂亚、地球物理学家维杰·普拉萨德·迪姆里与地震学家哈尔什·古普塔的莲花士勋章，以及授予石油工业先驱瓦曼·巴普吉·梅特里与印度煤炭公司掌门古尔尚·拉尔·坦登的莲花装勋章。

• Shyam Sundar Rai, a seismologist, is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate from the institute.地震学家希亚姆·孙达尔·拉伊是该院出身的香蒂·斯瓦鲁普·巴特纳加尔奖得主。

• Within the Indian Institutes of Technology system it is recognized as the third oldest institute to be converted into an IIT, after Roorkee and BHU Varanasi.在印度理工学院体系内，它被认定为继鲁尔基与贝拿勒斯印度大学之后第三个转制为 IIT 的古老学院。

Student life

• The institute hosts Srijan, one of the biggest socio-cultural festivals of eastern India, alongside Concetto, its technology festival, and Parakram, its sports festival.该学院举办东印度规模最大的社会文化节之一「斯里扬」，以及科技节「康切托」与体育节「帕拉克拉姆」。

• Khannan, billed as India's largest techno-mining fest, draws competitors from across the country to Dhanbad.号称全印最大矿业科技节的「坎南」吸引全国各地的参赛者齐聚丹巴德。

• Basant, the annual alumni meet, returns graduates to the campus each year and anchors the institute's alumni network.年度校友聚会「巴桑特」每年把毕业生带回校园，是该校校友网络的支柱活动。

• The Students' Gymkhana gives students a formal role in administrative and academic governance through the Students' Senate and its executive wing, elected each March.学生体育会通过学生参议院及其执行机构让学生正式参与行政与学术治理，参议院每年三月经选举产生。

• The Senate serves as the central representative, legislative and supervisory body of the student community, with Gymkhana activities subordinated to academic work.参议院是学生群体的中央代表、立法与监督机构，体育会活动须让位于学业。

• The Sports and Physical Education Centre organizes club sports that complement the institute's technical curriculum.体育运动中心组织的俱乐部体育，与技术课程形成互补。

• Inter-house, inter-hostel and departmental festivals fill the calendar alongside the flagship fests.除旗舰节庆外，舍际、宿际与院系节庆也排满了全年日程。

• Campus landmarks such as the Student Activity Center, Ram Dhani and the library basement with its food outlets anchor everyday student routines.学生活动中心、「拉姆达尼」以及设有餐饮点的图书馆地下层，构成了学生日常生活的地标。

• Eleven gem-named hostels create an identity system in which residents of Ruby, Opal or Jasper halls compete in hostel championships.11 栋以宝石命名的宿舍构成了一套身份体系，红宝石、蛋白石或碧玉楼的住民在宿舍锦标赛中彼此竞争。

• Proximity to the Jharia coalfields lets students see continuous miner operations and mine safety practice within a short field trip of the campus.毗邻贾里亚煤田的区位，使学生经短途野外实习即可观摩连续采煤机作业与矿井安全实务。

Notable people

• Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, formally inaugurated the Indian School of Mines & Applied Geology on December 9, 1926.印度总督埃尔温勋爵于 1926 年 12 月 9 日为印度矿业与应用地质学院正式揭幕。

• Professor F. W. Sharpley led the institute from 1926 to 1946, guiding its first two decades of mining and geology teaching.F. W. 夏普利教授于 1926 年至 1946 年主持学院，引领了其采矿与地质教学的最初二十年。

• Waman Bapuji Metre, alumnus of the class of the 1920s era, received the Padma Bhushan as a pioneer of the Indian oil industry.二十年代就读于该院的校友瓦曼·巴普吉·梅特里作为印度石油工业先驱获颁莲花装勋章。

• Gulshan Lal Tandon, Padma Bhushan awardee, pioneered the Indian mining industry and served as chairman and managing director of Coal India.莲花装勋章得主古尔尚·拉尔·坦登是印度采矿业的开拓者，曾任印度煤炭公司董事长兼总经理。

• Jaswant Singh Gill, the mining engineer honoured with the Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak, led the 1989 Raniganj coalmine rescue that saved dozens of trapped miners.获「最高救生勋章」的采矿工程师贾斯万特·辛格·吉尔指挥了 1989 年拉尼甘杰煤矿救援，救出数十名被困矿工。

• Rabi Narayan Bastia, Padma Shri geoscientist, is known for his contributions to hydrocarbon exploration in the Krishna Godavari Basin.莲花士勋章得主、地球科学家拉比·纳拉扬·巴斯蒂亚以对克里希纳-戈达瓦里盆地油气勘探的贡献著称。

• Vijay Prasad Dimri, Padma Shri geophysical scientist, and Harsh Gupta, Padma Shri seismologist, are both alumni of the institute.莲花士勋章得主、地球物理学家维杰·普拉萨德·迪姆里与莲花士勋章得主、地震学家哈尔什·古普塔均为该院校友。

• Shyam Sundar Rai, seismologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, studied at the institute.地震学家、香蒂·斯瓦鲁普·巴特纳加尔奖得主希亚姆·孙达尔·拉伊曾就读于该院。

• T. C. Rao, called the father of Indian mineral processing, was the founding head of the Fuel, Mineral and Metallurgical Department at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad.被誉为「印度矿物加工之父」的 T. C. 拉奥是 IIT (ISM) 丹巴德燃料、矿物与冶金系的创系主任。

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Union Cabinet approved the conversion of ISM Dhanbad into an IIT on May 25, 2016, and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the upgrade in his February 2015 budget speech.总理纳伦德拉·莫迪领导的联邦内阁于 2016 年 5 月 25 日批准丹巴德印度矿业学院转制为 IIT；财政部长阿伦·贾特利在 2015 年 2 月的预算演说中宣布了这一升格。