IIT Dhanbad UG, PG, Certificate Courses 2025

Candidates seeking admission to IIT Dhanbad BTech must appear for JEE Mains followed by JEE Advance examination. To be eligible for IIT Dhanbad BTech candidates are required to meet the eligibility criteria for JEE Mains. 

Find below the JEE Main and JEE Advance eligibility criteria for admission to IIT Dhanbad BTech:

Entrance Examination	Eligibility
JEE Main 2024	Passed class 12 in 2022/2023 or appearing in 2024 from any recognised board with a minimum 75% marks and Physics, Mathematics, and any one subject among Chemistry/Biology/Biotechnology/Technical Vocational Subject as compulsory subject. Candidates having passed any exam equivalent to class 12 are also eligible to apply
JEE Advance 2024	Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in BE/BTech Paper of JEE (Main) 2024. Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1999. Five years of age relaxation is given to SC, ST, and PwD candidates, i.e. these candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1994.

 

IIT Roorkee announced the GATE 2025 result on March 19, 2025. To check the result, candidates will need to enter their GATE enrollment ID, registered email ID, and date of birth. The GATE exam is very prestigious among engineering and Science graduates. It is conducted every year by one of the IITs among the nine IITs. In 2024, IISc Bangalore conducted the GATE exam. The exam also opens various opportunities for engineering and Science graduates to work in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and in the field of research. The GATE 2025 brochure has been released by IIT Roorkee comprising of all the relevant information about the GATE 2025 exam, including exam dates, paper codes, eligibility criteria, etc. Read more about the GATE 2025 Result: https://www.shiksha.com/engineering/gate-exam-results.

IIT Dhanbad offers four-year BTech course, admission to which is based on JEE Main and JEE Advanced score. Candidates can apply for any of the BTech specialisations out of the 10 offered at the institute. Below are the BTech specialisations offered at IIT ISM Dhanbad:

• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mining Machinery Engineering
• Petroleum Engineering
• Mining and Metallurgical Engineering

IIT (ISM), Dhanbad offers various undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes. The courses provided by the institute include BTech, Dual degree (BTech-MTech), MTech, MSc MBA, MSc Tech, Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF), and PhD. under 18 departments. Also, for admissions to these courses, candidates need to clear the eligibility criteria. The entrance exams accepted for different courses include JEE Main + JEE Advanced + JoSAA Counselling, CAT GATE + COAP Counselling, IIT JAM + CCMN counselling, etc.

NTA announced JEE Main 2024 dates. NTA coducted the JEE Main 2024 exam in two sessions. JEE Main 2024 exam date session 1 was January 24 to February 1 while the second session was held from April 4 to 15. Candidates can check JEE Main 2024 exam date session 1 and 2 on this page.  JEE Main 2024 application form session 1 was available from November 1 to December 4. For session 2, NTA released application form on February 2.

IISc Bangalore conducted the GATE 2024 exam on February 3, 4, 10, and 11, 2024. The GATE 2024 application form was released on 24th August 2024 on the official website at gate.iisc.ac.in. The organising institute for GATE 2024 was IISc Bangalore. The exam was conducted online as a computer-based test for 29 papers. Candidates had to solve 65 questions in 180 minutes (3 hours). The GATE 2024 syllabus is based on General Aptitude and Core Discipline, carrying a weightage of 15% and 85% respectively. Check more about GATE 2024 exam here.

The IIT Dhanbad placement highlights for the MTech Class of 2025 are tabulated below:

Course	MTech Placement Statistics (2025)
Average package	INR 10.85 LPA
Median package	INR 8.5 LPA
Students participated	241
Students placed	168
Placement percentage	69.71%

Yes, placements at IIT Dhanbad are good. During the placement drive 2025, 100% placement was recorded in BTech Double Major course. BTech and MTech placement rate in 2025 was 82.49% and 69.71%. 

The best placement rate in 2025 was recorded for BTech Environmental Engineering, wherein the placement rate was 100%. It was followed by BTech CSE and BTech ECE with placement percentage of 92.14% and 90.09%. For BTech Double Major degree, the placement rate in 2025 was 100%.

The placement rate recorded during BTech + MTech placement 2025 was 100%, except Civil Engineering, wherein the placement rate was 50%.

The placement rate recorded during Integrated MTech placements 2025 for Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics and Mathematics & computing branches was 87.5%, 81.82% and 90.91%.

Below is the IIT Dhanbad BTech admission process:

Application:

To get admission in IIT Dhanbad BTech course, candidates have to fill the online application form must and check the eligibility criteria of each course before filling the form. 

Entrance Exam:

Candidates seeking admission need to take JEE Main exam and then JEE Advanced. Aspirants need to qualify both the entrance exams to be considered for JoSAA Counselling.

Counselling & Seat Allotment:

Further, the students who secure the cutoff marks are called for JoSAA Counselling, based on which the seat allotment is carried out.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad, formerly known as Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad, is one of the premier engineering institutes in India. The institute has a strong reputation among recruiters, and many reputed companies across different sectors visit the campus for recruitment. Some of the top recruiters of IIT Dhanbad are: Microsoft Google Amazon IBM Infosys Wipro Tata Steel Vedanta Reliance Industries Limited Larsen & Toubro Apart from these, many other top companies across different sectors like Oil & Gas, Mining, IT, and Manufacturing, also visit the campus for recruitment. The institutes placement cell provides students with ample opportunities to interact with recruiters through various activities like guest lectures, industry visits, and networking events. Overall, IIT Dhanbad has a good reputation among recruiters, and the institute provides students with ample opportunities to secure job opportunities in reputed companies.

The eligibility criteria for MTech course at IIT Dhanbad is Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent or a Master's degree in Science/Arts/Commerce with at least 60% aggregate or CGPA/CPI of 6.0 in 10 point scale (55% aggregate or 5.5 CGPA for SC/ST). Also, candidates need to clear the entrance exam for IIT Dhanbad MTech admissions. The entrance exams accepted is GATE.

To get admission to M.Tech in IIT Dhanbad, students need to be eligible to apply for the course. The Institute accepts admission based on GATE entrance scores followed by COAP counselling. Students who are graduated from IIT are exempted from the GATE entrance score requirement. Hence, for admission, students need to apply for GATE by visiting the GOAPS website.

No, IIT Dhanbad BTech admission is strictly entrance based. Admission to IIT Dhanbad BTech is allotted on the basis of candidates' performance in JEE Main exam, candidates who qualify IIT Dhabad JEE Main cutoff are then required to appear for JEE Advance followed by  the counselling round conducted by JoSAA. JEE Main is also the eligibility test for JEE Advanced. Only those candidates who have qualified for JEE Main are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced entrance test for admission to IIT Dhanbad BTech courses. To seek admission to the BTech programme offered at IIT Dhanbad, candidates need to visit the official website of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and fill out the application form in online mode for JEE Main. 

IIT Dhanbad accepts JEE Advanced scores for admission to BTech/Integrated BTech/BS/Integrated BS. The cutoff was released for different categories belonging to the All India quota. The cutoff for the General AI category candidates was closed between the range of 3846 and 16011. Therefore, the highest cutoff rank for admission among the General AI category was 16011, which was admission to Integrated B.Tech. + M.Sc.Tech. in Applied Geology. 

According to the reviews and ratings provided by the current students and alumnis of IIT Dhanbad, the BTech CSE course have recieved an overall rating of 4.2 stars out of 5. Quoted below are the statements of verified students of IIT Dhanbad:

• "Our college provides good placements. Around 93-95% of students got placed in our college. The highest salary package offered is 56 LPA."
• "Our college has highly qualified professors. They are Ph.D. holders. They have been educated at foreign universities. The teaching quality is up to the mark."
• "The infrastructure is very good. Our campus has greenery all around. It has Asia's second-the largest library which is fully equipped with air-conditioners and Wi-Fi." 

 

To get into ECE at IIT Dhanbad through JEE Advanced exam, candidate must obtain the neccessary rank as per the category they belong to. IIT Dhanbad JEE Advanced cutoff 2024 for the General AI category candidates in the last round was 5982. Notably, ECE was one of the highly competitive specialisations at IIT Dhanbad. For last round closing cutoff ranks for ECE for other reserved and unreserved categories, refer to the table below:

Category (All India quota)	Last Round Closing Rank
General	5982
OBC	2102
SC	1214
ST	673
EWS	880

 

IIT Dhanbad admission 2025 is open. Aspiring students can get admisison after qualifying the JEE Main exam and then JEE Advanced entrance exams. Aspirants need to qualify both the entrance exams to be considered for JoSAA Counselling. To get admission in IIT Dhanbad BTech course, candidates have to fill the online application form must and check the eligibility criteria of each course before filling the form.