Inner Mongolia Normal University

Inner Mongolia Normal University was founded in 1952 as one of the earliest higher education institutions established by the Party and the state in a frontier ethnic minority region after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It is a key university of the autonomous region and a comprehensive normal university distinguished by teacher education and ethnic education, known as “the cradle of ethnic education.”

The university has two campuses with land use of over 3800 mu, approximately 253 hectares, and over 1 million square meters of buildings. Its fixed assets exceed RMB 1.97 billion, including teaching equipment valued at over RMB 450 million. Its library holds over 2.5 million printed volumes and over 800000 e-book titles, with 100 TB of disk storage.

It has over 2400 faculty and staff, including over 1400 full-time teachers. Teachers with master’s or doctoral degrees account for 71% of full-time teachers, and those with associate senior or higher titles account for 45%. It has 746 doctoral and master’s supervisors, 36 second-level schools, 1 independent college and 3 teaching and research departments. It has over 30000 full-time undergraduate and junior-college students, over 4200 postgraduate students of various kinds, over 7100 adult education students and over 300 international students, forming a multilevel education system. It offers 77 undergraduate programs across 10 disciplinary categories. It has doctoral degree authorizations in 2 first-level and 4 second-level disciplines, 1 postdoctoral research station, master’s degree authorizations in 24 first-level and 131 second-level disciplines, and 10 professional master’s degree categories. It is authorized to recommend students for examination-exempt master’s admission. It has 91 research institutions, 6 autonomous regional key laboratories, 2 autonomous regional university key laboratories, 1 cultivation base for an autonomous regional university key laboratory, 4 autonomous regional university key humanities and social science research bases, 1 autonomous regional philosophy and social science research base, 1 autonomous regional engineering technology research center, 1 autonomous regional engineering laboratory, 1 autonomous regional engineering research center and 1 autonomous regional academician and expert workstation.

The university pursues open education and strengthens external exchanges. It has good partnerships with universities and research institutions in countries including Mongolia, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia, and with renowned institutions in China. In 2009, it was approved to train master’s students in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. It has appointed over three hundred renowned experts and scholars from China and abroad, including five academicians of China’s two academies, as academic advisors, visiting professors and adjunct professors.

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For undergraduate courses, see: http://unix.imnu.edu.cn/info/Onews.php?id=581

For postgraduate courses, see: http://yjsc.imnu.edu.cn/index\_list.php?id=4