学院瞄准科学前沿和经济社会发展的重大问题，以国家能源矿业重大需求为导向，开展独具特色的理论研究和技术开发。目前，学科依托或支撑平台有煤炭资源与安全开采国家重点实验室、深部煤炭资源开采教育部重点实验室和江苏省矿山地震监测工程实验室等一批国家级或省部级教科研平台。矿业工程学科是国家211工程、985工程优势学科创新平台和世界一流大学和世界一流学科重点建设学科，在全国学科排名第一，处于世界领先水平。

十二五以来，学院共承担973、863等国家级科研项目121项，省部级科研项目174项，企业合作项目千余项，经费累计7.1亿元，其中纵向经费1.56亿元；获得“国家科技进步奖”、“国家技术发明奖”等国家级科技奖励5项、省部级科技奖励153项、授权国内国外发明专利855件，软件著作权23件；制订国家或行业标准14项；SCI检索论文545篇；EI检索论文431篇；出版教材及专著72部。在国内外学术界产生重要影响。

Aiming at the frontier of science and major economic and social development issues, the college conducts unique theoretical research and technology development guided by the major needs of the country's energy and mining industries. At present, the disciplines rely on national or provincial-level teaching and research platforms, such as the State Key Laboratory Coal Resources and Safe Mining, the Key Laboratory of Deep Coal Mining of the Ministry of Education, and the Jiangsu Mine Earthquake Monitoring Engineering Laboratory. The discipline of Mining Engineering is a key construction discipline of the national "211 Project", "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform", and "World-class Universities and World-class Disciplines", ranking first in China and at the world's leading level.

Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the college has undertaken 121 national scientific research projects such as "973" and "863", 174 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and more than a thousand enterprise cooperation projects, with a total funding of 710 million yuan, of which vertical funding is 156 million yuan; won 5 national science and technology awards such as "National Science and Technology Progress Award" and "National Technology Invention Award", 153 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, authorized 855 domestic and foreign invention patents, and 23 software copyrights; formulated industry standards 14 and 545 papers were retrieved by SCI; 431 papers were retrieved by EI; 72 textbooks and monographs were published. School of Mines has a great influence on the academia of mining.