Founded in 1952, Inner Mongolia Normal University is one of the oldest universities established in the frontier minority area by the CPC and its government. As a key university established in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Normal University is an important base to train teachers for primary education, ethnic minority education, and to train compound talents who speak both Mongolian and Chinese. It also serves as a training center for secondary school teachers, a continuing education center for primary and secondary school teachers, and a research center for the development and reform of basic education and minority education. IMNU thus deserves the honor of being regarded as “the cradle of minority education”.
IMNU presently has two campuses with a total area of over 2,530,000 square meters, and the university boasts 900,000 square meters floor areas dedicated to educational buildings. The school library houses over 2,400,000 books. At present, the University has 2,400 staff members, including 1,500 full-time teachers and researchers, among whom 28 are doctoral supervisors, 548 master supervisors. There are more than 30,000 full-time undergraduates and junior college students, over 4,200 postgraduates, more than 5,800 students with adult higher education and over 400 foreign students.
Inner Mongolia Normal University presently comprises 34 subordinate colleges and offers 64 undergraduate majors. It possesses 1 National Quality Course, 2 National Teaching Teams and 6 Specialty Programs approved by Education Ministry. IMNU also boasts 2 First- Level PhD programs, 4 Second-Level PhD programs, 24 First-Level Master Programs, 112 Second-Level Master Programs and 8 Professional Master Programs. Moreover, there are 5 regional key laboratories, 2 regional key laboratories in university as well as 12 fundamental laboratories and laboratories with professional features jointly constructed by the Central Government and local universities. By adhering to the idea of running school openly and enhancing international exchanges, IMNU has established favorable cooperation and exchange relations with many foreign countries and some renowned universities, colleges, research institutions in China .
With the experience of running the school, IMNU develops its concept as “realistic, cultivate the talent, creative, serve the society” and strengthens its training of double-degree teacher education and Mongolian-Chinese Bilingual Talent education. For over 50 years’ development, IMNU has been adhering to the school motto of “devotion, truth seeking, unification and diligence”, fostering more than 170,000 graduates who become different kinds of talents for national modernization construction.
Currently, IMNU follows the idea of “seizing the opportunity for development, strengthening its characteristics, raising its level, being a prestigious university” and sticks to the development strategy “comprehensive development with focus, breakthrough in key points and driving the comprehensive development”. IMNU is now seeking innovation and making arduous efforts to build itself into a comprehensive teaching-research normal university with distinctive features.
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