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JEE Advanced: The cut-offs for the Electrical Engineering department have seen a significant change at IIT Dhanbad. The opening cut off for the first round of counselling in the open category was between 3000 to 3700 from 2019 to 2021. However, over the last two years, the opening rank for the category has been over 5000.
As per the data available, the opening rank for open category females has been around 10,000 for the last few years. The opening rank for EWS category also increased from 476 in 2019 to 934 in 2023. Similar trends have been seen across all other categories.
The institute secured 42nd rank in the overall category of National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2023, it ranked 17 amongst engineering colleges, 24 in the research category and 44 in the management colleges category.
Given below are the last five years’ cut-offs for admissions to Electrical Engineering (4 years, Bachelor of Technology):
| CATEGORY | CUT OFF(OPENING RANK) | CUT OFF (CLOSING RANK) |
| Open | 5259 | 6967 |
| Open (female only) | 10655 | 12322 |
| EWS | 934 | 1021 |
| OBC-NCL | 1903 | 2640 |
| SC | 1149 | 1335 |
| ST | 514 | 616 |
| CATEGORY | CUT OFF(OPENING RANK) | CUT OFF (CLOSING RANK) |
| Open | 5463 | 6815 |
| Open (female only) | 9748 | 11437 |
| EWS | 877 | 1068 |
| OBC-NCL | 1895 | 2416 |
| SC | 1069 | 1405 |
| ST | 561 | 692 |
| CATEGORY | CUT OFF(OPENING RANK) | CUT OFF (CLOSING RANK) |
| Open | 3674 | 6101 |
| Open (female only) | 10161 | 13014 |
| EWS | 695 | 880 |
| OBC-NCL | 1780 | 2293 |
| SC | 1076 | 1462 |
| ST | 508 | 657 |
| CATEGORY | CUT OFF(OPENING RANK) | CUT OFF (CLOSING RANK) |
| Open | 3138 | 5495 |
| Open (female only) | 10487 | 11500 |
| EWS | 601 | 791 |
| OBC-NCL | 1518 | 2233 |
| SC | 911 | 1302 |
| ST | 530 | 601 |
| CATEGORY | CUT OFF(OPENING RANK) | CUT OFF (CLOSING RANK) |
| Open | 3189 | 5323 |
| Open (female only) | 8094 | 10470 |
| EWS | 476 | 483 |
| OBC-NCL | 1590 | 1901 |
| SC | 790 | 1144 |
| ST | 390 | 510 |
Electronics Engineering was introduced here in 1977, even though the institute was established in 1926 by Viceroy Lord Irwin as Indian School of Mines and Applied Geology at Dhanbad. It offers several courses such as BTech, dual degree, Integrated MSc, Integrated MSc, MTech, MPhil and MBA.
The institute began admitting students through Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), conducted jointly by the IIT’s and ISM, in 1997. It became an IIT on September 6, 2016.
