Inner Mongolia University of Technology

Inner Mongolia University of Technology is located in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Its predecessor was Suiyuan Provincial Advanced Industrial School, founded in 1951. With support from Tsinghua University and other institutions, Inner Mongolia Institute of Technology was established in 1958. It was formerly administered by the Ministry of Machinery Industry and the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery, transferred to Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 1983, and renamed Inner Mongolia University of Technology in 1993. It operates on three campuses—Xincheng, Jinchuan and Jungar—covering 3227 mu.

After 66 years of development, it has become a distinctive multidisciplinary university centered on engineering and combining engineering, science, literature, economics, management, law, education and arts, with a complete doctoral, master’s and undergraduate education system. It has 25 schools, departments or centers and 62 research institutes. It has 1 postdoctoral research station; 3 first-level doctoral degree authorizations and 1 second-level doctoral degree authorization not covered by a first-level authorization; 19 first-level master’s degree authorizations and 10 second-level master’s degree authorizations not covered by first-level authorizations; and 6 professional degree categories: Master of Engineering, with 14 authorized fields, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Engineering Management (MEM), Master of Architecture, Master of Social Work and Master of Translation and Interpreting. It has 69 undergraduate programs and is authorized to recommend outstanding undergraduates for examination-exempt master’s admission. It has over 22000 full-time undergraduate and junior-college students and over 4400 doctoral and master’s students.

Since the start of the 12th Five-Year Plan, it has undertaken over 1600 research projects of various types and levels, including projects under the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Social Science Fund, national “863” Program and National Science and Technology Support Program. It has received 50 science and technology awards at provincial or ministerial level or above, including 2 second prizes in the National Science and Technology Progress Awards; 19 first or second prizes in Inner Mongolia Science and Technology Progress and Natural Science Awards; and 29 first, second or third prizes in the Inner Mongolia Government Awards for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences. It has obtained over 200 national patent authorizations and published over 2000 papers indexed in SCI, EI, ISTP, CSSCI and other systems.

The university has 2026 faculty and staff and 1312 full-time teachers, including 178 professors, 421 associate professors, 54 doctoral supervisors and 557 master’s supervisors. Among full-time teachers, 89.71% hold doctoral or master’s degrees. Faculty members have received 72 instances of State Council special government allowances or national and autonomous regional titles of “Young and Middle-Aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions.” One person was selected for the first and second tiers of the national “Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project”; 9 teachers have received the “Inner Mongolia Outstanding Talent Award”; 12 have been selected for the Ministry of Education’s “New Century Excellent Talent Program”; 48 for Inner Mongolia’s “Grassland Talent” project; 7 teams as “Grassland Talent” innovation teams; 42 people for the first and second tiers of the autonomous region’s “New Century 321 Talent Project”; 11 for the first and second tiers of Inner Mongolia’s higher education talent training “111” project; and 14 for the autonomous region’s “University Scientific and Technological Talent Support Program.” The university also engages renowned scholars from China and abroad as adjunct professors.

It has 5 Ministry of Education distinctive program development sites, 4 pilot programs under the Ministry of Education’s Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, 1 national off-campus engineering practice base for university students, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national comprehensive program reform pilot, 4 autonomous regional priority development programs, 25 autonomous regional branded programs, 8 autonomous regional experimental teaching demonstration centers, 18 autonomous regional teaching teams and 16 autonomous regional distinguished teachers.

The university received an “Excellent” rating in the Ministry of Education’s 2006 undergraduate teaching evaluation. In 2012, it was named one of the “50 National Universities with Exemplary Graduate Employment Practices.” In 2016, it joined institutions supported by Phase II of the national “Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in Central and Western China.” It is one of the first 32 national university student cultural quality education bases approved by the Ministry of Education. It has been recognized nationally as an “Advanced Higher Education Institution in Party Building and Ideological and Political Work” and an “Advanced Collective in Graduate Employment Work in Regular Higher Education Institutions.” The autonomous region has also awarded it titles including “Advanced Collective in Education,” “Outstanding Unit in Ideological and Political Work,” “Advanced Unit in Cultural and Ethical Progress,” “Advanced University in Student Affairs,” “Advanced Unit in Talent Work,” and “Advanced Collective in Ethnic Unity and Progress.”

The university follows an open educational philosophy and actively conducts external exchanges and cooperation. It has substantive cooperation and exchanges with leading Chinese universities such as Tsinghua University and Tianjin University, as well as 56 universities and 2 research institutes in 19 countries and regions, including Mongolia, Russia, the United States, Germany, France, Japan and Canada. In 2005 and 2007, respectively, it became an admitting institution for the “Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government Scholarship for International Students” and the Ministry of Education’s “Chinese Government Scholarship” international student program. It has signed cooperation agreements with local governments including Hohhot, Baotou, Wuhai and Ulanqab, and with over 40 large and medium-sized enterprises, jointly developing innovation centers and research platforms.

Over 66 years, the university has trained nearly 150000 outstanding people working across China and in every sector. Many have become leaders and technical specialists in large and medium-sized enterprises, experts and scholars in universities and research institutes, and senior Party and government officials. At a new historical starting point, the university will uphold its motto, “Broad Learning and Practical Action, High Aspirations and Virtue,” promote its ethos of “seeking truth and valuing action,” follow a development philosophy of innovation, distinctiveness, quality, regional engagement and openness, and work toward becoming a nationally renowned teaching and research university that is first-class among universities in ethnic minority regions.