IIT Dhanbad (ISM) - Indian Institute of Technology (ISM)

IIT Dhanbad GATE COAP cutoff 2025 has been released for Round 1. If you belong to the General AI category, the cutoff scores ranged from 456 to 762 for MTech admission across multiple specialisations. Check out the table below to view the GATE COAP cutoff 2026 for the General AI category candidates. 

IIT Dhanbad have good placements ( over 90%) and the median package is about 15LPA. So IIT Dhanbad can be the good option.

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad faculty include educators with excellent educational background. They are pass outs from reputed institutions. The faculty members also contribute in research work in the respective area of specialisation. Details about some of the IIT Dhanbad faculty members are mentioned in the following table:

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad M.Tech cutoff is based on GATE scores followed by the COAP Counsleling. In 2023, GATE COAP Round 11 Seat Allotment results have been released by IIT Kharagpur (Coordinating Institute for COAP 2023) as the concluding round. Candidates can refer to the table given below to check out the GATE COAP cutoff 2023 along with the previous year cutoffs for the General category students:

Candidates wishing to stay in the hostel of IIT Dhanbad campus have to pay a hostel fee. The fee is charged as per the service required by the candidates. An additional amount is to be paid for aspirants wanting to avail the mess service. Below is the IIT Dhanbad hostel fee for MSc:

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

Talking about expensiveness IIT Dhanbad is lot more Costly than Birla Institute of Technology Sindri. The course fees are way more affordable in BIT Sindri than IIT Dhanbad. And since IIT Dhanbad is an IIT it requires a very good rank in JEE Main or JEE Advance and cutoff is also much higher.

Course Fees: 

Yes,

 UPES School of Advanced Engineering is generally more expensive than IIT Dhanbad (ISM).

While the fees for B.Tech programs at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad range between INR 4 Lacs to INR 4.65 lakhs, the total fees for UPES can range from 10 Lacs to 20 lakhs depending on the program, making it significantly more expensive than IIT Dhanbad (ISM).

Not getting into IIT Dhanbad or any other top IIT should not be considered an end to a student's career. While IIT Dhanbad average package is INR 17.53 LPA for its 2025 placements batch, can IIT Dhanbad guarantee the same for each and every student of the batch? The answer is no. 

Students always have an option to go for other good private and government universities and colleges to pursue their BTech degree. Some of these options are as follows: