Established in 1952, Inner Mongolia Normal University is the first institution of higher learning established by the Party and the state in border ethnic minority areas after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It is also a key university in the autonomous region. It is a comprehensive normal university with distinctive characteristics of teacher education and ethnic education. After several generations of hard work and practical exploration, it has become an important base for the autonomous region to train basic education, ethnic education teachers, and Mongolian-Chinese ethnic minority compound talents. It is the autonomous region’s middle school teacher training center, primary and secondary school teacher continuing education center, Basic Education and National Education Reform and Development Research Center. The school is also a national and autonomous region environment and sustainable development education training base, a national social sports instructor training base, an autonomous region ethnic sculpture research center, a professional art creation base, a humanities and social science popularization base, and a variety of sports professionals in the autonomous region and eight provinces across the country. The district Mongolian sports talents, ethnic music talents in northern China, art and art design education talent training bases in the autonomous region are known as "the cradle of ethnic education" by the society.
The school has Saihan campus and Shengle campus, covering a total area of more than 3,800 acres (about 253 hectares), with a school building area of more than 900,000 square meters, and a total fixed asset value of more than 2.4 billion yuan, of which the total value of teaching equipment is more than 460 million Yuan. The library has more than 2.4 million books and more than 2.1 million e-books, equipped with 100TB disk storage. The school has 31 teaching institutions, 5 cooperative schools, 1 independent college, and 4 affiliated schools. There are 2178 faculty members, including 1,360 full-time teachers, 1168 teachers with master's and doctoral degrees, accounting for 85.9% of the total number of full-time teachers, and 676 teachers with associate senior titles or above, accounting for 49.7% of the total number of full-time teachers; there are doctoral students , 1,002 master's tutors, 19 autonomous region-level teaching teachers, 25 national and autonomous regional young and middle-aged experts who have made outstanding contributions, were selected into the national "Millions of Talents Project", the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", and the autonomous region's "New Century 321 Talents" There were 143 people (times) in the project, 27 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, and 30 people were funded by the Autonomous Region’s “Prairie Talents” project.
The school has 31956 full-time undergraduate and junior college students, including 6536 Mongolian textbook and junior college students, 4263 postgraduates of various types, 1161 various adult education students, and 577 international students of various types, forming a multi-level talent training. System. The school offers 92 undergraduate majors (including 30 majors taught in Mongolian), covering 10 university disciplines. There are 1 national quality course, 1 national quality video open course, 2 national teaching teams, 6 specialty construction sites of the Ministry of Education; 32 autonomous region-level brand majors, 4 autonomous region key construction majors, and national-level One "professional comprehensive reform pilot", one autonomous region-level "professional comprehensive reform pilot", 79 excellent courses in the autonomous region, 16 teaching teams in the autonomous region; 12 basic laboratories and characteristic laboratories jointly built by the central and local universities, There are 9 autonomous region-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 18 autonomous region-level key disciplines and key cultivation disciplines, and 37 school-level key disciplines.
The school has 5 first-level disciplines with the right to confer doctoral degrees, 1 mobile post-doctoral research station, 26 first-level disciplines with the right to confer master's degrees, and 10 professional degrees for master's degrees; it has the qualifications for exemption and recommended admission for master's students. The school has 92 scientific research institutions, 1 autonomous region collaborative innovation center, 6 school-level collaborative innovation centers, 8 autonomous region-level key laboratories, 2 university key laboratories, 1 university key laboratory cultivation base, and university humanities There are 4 key social science research bases, 3 philosophy and social science research bases, 2 engineering technology research centers, 2 engineering laboratories, 1 engineering research center, and 2 academician expert workstations. It also has a national "Humanities and Social Sciences Popularization Base" "1, and 3 national and regional research centers of the Ministry of Education.
In the 65 years since its establishment, the school has formed the school philosophy of "seeking truth and being pragmatic, educating people first, academic innovation, and serving the society". The school motto of "seeking truth, unity, and forging ahead" has trained and transported more than 240,000 graduates of various types. The school insists on opening up schools and has established good cooperation with more than 20 countries including Mongolia, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia and more than 50 well-known domestic universities and scientific research institutions. Relationship; In 2009, it was approved as a training unit for master's degree in Chinese to international education. The school has successively hired more than 400 well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad, including five academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and four academicians, as academic advisors, visiting professors and part-time professors.
In the new historical development stage, the school is transforming and developing in accordance with the concept of "integrating into society, serving society, and leading the society", serving regional economic and social development and the construction of the "Belt and Road", in order to build the school into a distinctive and innovative high-level comprehensive Sexual Normal University makes unremitting efforts.