Baotou Iron and Steel Vocational and Technical College is located in the first batch of national civilized cities and beautiful grassland steel city Baotou Steel (Group) Corporation. It was approved by the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 2005 and filed with the Ministry of Education to become a full-time general higher vocational school.
The college was rated as a national continuing education and training base for professional and technical personnel, a national high-skilled personnel training base, a national vocational skills appraisal institute, an autonomous region "grassland talent" high-skilled personnel training base, an autonomous region technician training base, and an autonomous region vocational and technical education teacher training Bases, training bases for highly skilled personnel in the autonomous region, training bases for dispatched laborers from the autonomous region, high-skilled personnel training bases in Baotou City, and youth skills training bases in Baotou, etc.
The college relies on the largest plate production base in North China and the world’s largest rare earth scientific research and production base, Baotou Steel (Group) Company. She provides the college with a good school environment and ideal educational resources combining teaching, learning and research. Created a unique internship training platform. In 2011, Baotou Steel invested 280 million yuan to renovate and expand the old campus. The new campus has a construction area of 160,000 square meters. Newly built a comprehensive teaching building of nearly 23,000 square meters, with 87 classrooms, 14 lecture classrooms and a lecture hall that can accommodate 500 people; a training building of 8,832 square meters, with 60 training courses including CAD/CAM, heat treatment, electrical and electronics, etc. Laboratory: There are 4 simulation laboratories for sintering ironmaking, steelmaking, steel rolling, cranes, etc., and five mechatronics training rooms. The practice plant covers an area of 3195 square meters, has 5 practice workshops, including machining, numerical control, and electrical engineering, 72 sets of various training equipment, and 92 training stations. The library has 11,000 square meters, the student dormitory building has 20,000 square meters, and the student service center has more than 3,000 square meters. It has built a training and teaching platform that integrates training, appraisal, and examination.
The college has 11 departments for teaching and 25 majors, covering metallurgy, electromechanical, computer, construction, logistics, management and other majors closely related to local industries. At present, the college has more than 6000 students, 542 faculty members, and 305 full-time teachers. The college implements the strategy of “strengthening the school with talents” and has a team of teachers who are dedicated to their jobs, dedicated to teaching, and full of love. Among them, 136 are professors and associate professors or above, 117 are lecturers, and 54 are teachers with other senior and deputy senior titles. It employs 26 professors and associate professors, and many teachers serve as directors and members of relevant academic committees of the state and autonomous regions. The college continues to improve the construction of the teaching quality project, and actively carries out the selection of excellent courses, brand majors and excellent teaching teams. At present, the college has 4 autonomous region-level brand majors, 12 quality courses, 6 college-level brand majors, and 14 quality courses; 4 autonomous region-level excellent teaching teams, 6 college-level excellent teaching teams, and 4 autonomous region-level teaching teachers And 4 autonomous region-level teaching rookies; 18 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological achievements.
College establishes the concept of "Emotional quotient is more important than IQ, and skills is more important than knowledge" in education and teaching, adhering to the school motto of "Being a teacher with heart, learning skills and being a man", and actively cultivate students' "craftsman spirit". In order to further highlight the iron and steel characteristics of the college and create superior majors, the college adheres to the road of "school-enterprise cooperation, integration of work and learning", and has established 46 internship training bases such as Baotou Rail and Steel Plant and Baotou Steel Plant. In addition, the college has signed long-term and stable targeted training agreements with more than 30 large state-owned enterprises such as Baotou Steel Oxygen Plant and Beijing BOE Co., Ltd. The combination of "2+1" and "order + pre-job training" and other directional training modes can truly combine theoretical teaching with field practice, internship training and job needs, and jointly cultivate skilled talents.
The college has been recognized by the society for its outstanding school-running characteristics, established a good social reputation, and guaranteed that our students can find a better employment unit before graduation. The employment rate of college graduates in 2017 was 97.29%, ranking top among similar universities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Spring weather turns rain, peaches and plums are fragrant. For more than sixty years, the college has taken it as its mission to cultivate technical and technical talents with the spirit of modern craftsmen, and has delivered batches of outstanding talents to the society. The characteristics of "fast" are well received by employers.