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): IIT Dhanbad : Electrical Engineering Cut-off 2023 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 IIT Dhanbad : Electrical Engineering Cut-off 2022 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 IIT Dhanbad : Electrical Engineering Cut-off 2021 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 IIT Dhanbad : Electrical Engineering Cut-off 2020 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 IIT Dhanbad : Electrical Engineering Cut-off 2019 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.
