Inner Mongolia University

Inner Mongolia University (IMU) is a provincial public university in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, founded in 1957 as the first comprehensive university established in a minority autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.内蒙古大学（简称内大）位于中国内蒙古自治区呼和浩特市，1957 年建校，是中华人民共和国在少数民族自治地区创办的第一所综合性大学。

It is affiliated with the People's Government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is co-funded by the Ministry of Education, and has belonged to Project 211 since 1997 and to the Double First-Class Construction since 2017.学校隶属内蒙古自治区人民政府，由教育部与自治区共建，1997 年进入「211 工程」，2017 年入选「双一流」建设高校。

The university operates four campuses in Hohhot and Manzhouli, enrols more than 23,000 students, and has built its academic identity on Mongolian studies and life sciences, the two discipline groups it treats as its defining strengths.学校在呼和浩特和满洲里两地办学，设有四个校区，各类在校生两万三千余人，以蒙古学和生命科学两大优势特色学科群立校。

History

• Inner Mongolia University was founded in Hohhot in 1957, when the central government decided that the newly established Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region needed a comprehensive university of its own to train cadres and specialists locally.1957 年，中央决定在新建的内蒙古自治区创办一所综合性大学，就地培养干部和专门人才，内蒙古大学由此在呼和浩特成立。
• Premier Zhou Enlai directed the Ministry of Higher Education to assemble the first faculty from twelve leading institutions, among them Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University and Nankai University, which gave the new school an unusually strong starting staff.周恩来总理指示高等教育部从北京大学、清华大学、复旦大学、南开大学等十二所著名高校抽调教师，组成建校初期的师资队伍，使新生的内蒙古大学起点颇高。
• Ulanhu, then chairman of the autonomous region and later a vice premier of China, served concurrently as the first president from 1957 to 1966, with Yu Beichen and Li Jitong as vice presidents.时任自治区主席、后任国务院副总理的乌兰夫兼任首任校长（1957 至 1966 年），于北辰和李继侗出任副校长。
• The university library opened on 14 October 1957 in a building at the northern edge of the main campus, facing an artificial lake that the first staff and students had dug by hand.内蒙古大学图书馆于 1957 年 10 月 14 日开馆，馆舍位于校本部北侧，面向建校初期师生亲手开挖的人工湖。
• In 1978 the Ministry of Education designated it a national key comprehensive university, a status then held by only a small group of institutions outside Beijing and Shanghai.1978 年，学校被教育部确定为全国重点综合性大学，当时京沪以外获此身份的高校屈指可数。
• Inner Mongolia University Press was established in 1985 and has published about 1,315 titles, roughly 120 a year, including 140 in Mongolian and 60 in English, Japanese and Russian.内蒙古大学出版社成立于 1985 年，累计出版图书约 1,315 种，每年约 120 种，其中蒙古文图书 140 种，英、日、俄文图书 60 种。
• The Inner Mongolia Art School joined the university in 1987 as its College of Arts, which now offers 13 art majors and 37 specialised directions.内蒙古艺术学校于 1987 年并入内蒙古大学，组建艺术学院，现设 13 个艺术类本科专业和 37 个专业方向。
• Reproductive biologist B. Shorgan led the university as president from 1993 to 2006, a period in which its doctoral programmes and Mongolian studies centre took shape.生殖生物学家旭日干于 1993 至 2006 年担任校长，学校的博士点与蒙古学研究中心在此期间逐步成形。
• The College of Mongolian Studies was formally established on 12 December 1995 and became the base for the university's Mongolian-language doctoral training.蒙古学学院于 1995 年 12 月 12 日正式成立，成为学校蒙古语授课博士培养的基地。
• In 1997 the university was admitted to the first group of Project 211 institutions, the national scheme that concentrated resources on about one hundred universities.1997 年，学校进入首批「211 工程」院校行列，该工程旨在集中资源重点建设约一百所高校。
• At the fortieth anniversary in 1997 the campus lake, earlier called Sai Lake, received its present name, Taoli Lake, which evokes both cultivated talent and the Mongolian word for mirror.1997 年四十周年校庆时，校园湖泊由赛湖更名为桃李湖，既取培育桃李之意，也对应蒙古语中「镜子」一词。
• The foreign languages department was reorganised into the College of Foreign Languages in 1999, with separate departments for English and for Japanese and Russian.外语系于 1999 年改建为外国语学院，下设英语系和日俄语系。
• In 2004 the Ministry of Education and the government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region agreed to build the university jointly, a formula that brought additional national funding and a shared say in its development plan.2004 年，教育部与内蒙古自治区人民政府签署共建协议，学校由此获得额外的国家层面投入，发展规划也由双方共同商定。
• The College of Ethnology and Sociology was formed in 2007 by combining the ethnology department of the Mongolian studies college with the sociology department of the public management college.民族学与社会学学院于 2007 年由蒙古学学院民族学系与公共管理学院社会学系合并组建。
• Three applied colleges were created in 2008, namely the College of Transportation, the College of Physical Science and Technology and the College of Electronic Information Engineering.2008 年，学校新设交通学院、物理科学与技术学院和电子信息工程学院三个应用型学院。
• The College of Literature and Journalism was established on 19 January 2010, and the College of History and Tourism Culture was separated from the humanities college later the same year.文学与新闻传播学院于 2010 年 1 月 19 日成立，历史与旅游文化学院也在同年从人文学院分出。
• In 2012 the university was selected for the national programme that strengthened the comprehensive capacity of universities in central and western China.2012 年，学校入选国家「中西部高校提升综合实力计划」。
• In 2016 the State Council placed it in the One Province, One University high-level development programme, and the regional government named it the first-choice institution for Double First-Class construction.2016 年，国务院将其纳入中西部「一省一校」高水平大学建设行列，自治区政府也确定其为「双一流」建设首选支持高校。
• In September 2017 the university entered the national Double First-Class Construction as a world-class discipline university, with Mongolian studies among the disciplines singled out for support.2017 年 9 月，学校以世界一流学科建设高校身份进入国家「双一流」建设名单，蒙古学是其中获得重点支持的学科之一。
• Its Ordos College, created to serve the coal district, was merged in 2015 with two other schools into the independent Ordos Institute of Applied Technology and no longer enrols under the Inner Mongolia University name.为服务煤炭产区而设的鄂尔多斯学院于 2015 年与另外两校合并，组建独立的鄂尔多斯应用技术学院，不再以内蒙古大学名义招生。
• Wu Limin, a chemical engineer, became president in 2023, succeeding Chen Guoqing, who led the university from 2010 to 2021.化学工程专家武利民于 2023 年出任校长，前任陈国庆于 2010 至 2021 年主持学校工作。

Academics

• The university is organised into 20 colleges and 34 departments, together with a separate department responsible for general education, and most colleges teach at least a few courses in both Chinese and Mongolian.学校现设 20 个学院、34 个系，另设一个公共教学部，多数学院都开设若干门汉语与蒙古语双语课程。
• As of 2006 it offered 59 undergraduate majors and 92 master's degree programmes, and its programme portfolio has expanded steadily since then.截至 2006 年，学校开设 59 个本科专业和 92 个硕士学位授权专业，此后专业布局持续扩展。
• It now holds six first-level doctoral authorisations, 49 second-level doctoral programmes, 20 first-level master's authorisations and 130 second-level master's programmes.学校现有博士学位授权一级学科 6 个、二级学科博士点 49 个，硕士学位授权一级学科 20 个、二级学科硕士点 130 个。
• Chinese ethnic minority language and literature and zoology are national key disciplines, while ecology holds the status of a national key cultivated discipline.中国少数民族语言文学和动物学为国家重点学科，生态学为国家重点培育学科。
• The Mongolian Studies Research Center is the only national key research base for humanities and social sciences in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and runs five research divisions, including Mongolian language and literature, history and culture, and social economy.蒙古学研究中心是内蒙古自治区唯一的教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地，下设蒙古语言文学、蒙古历史文化、蒙古社会经济等五个研究室。
• The College of Mongolian Studies offers two doctoral programmes, nine master's programmes and a postdoctoral station, and teaches its undergraduate majors entirely in Mongolian.蒙古学学院拥有 2 个博士学位授权点、9 个硕士学位授权点和 1 个博士后流动站，本科专业全部用蒙古语授课。
• The College of Life Sciences runs seven undergraduate majors, including biotechnology and ecology, and hosts the National Animal Transgenic Technology Research Center, one of the university's flagship research platforms.生命科学学院开设生物技术、生态学等 7 个本科专业，并承建国家动物转基因技术研究中心，这是学校标志性的科研平台之一。
• The College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering covers chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and pharmacy, with inorganic, organic and physical chemistry among its founding master's programmes.化学化工学院涵盖化学、化学工程与技术、材料科学与工程和药学，无机化学、有机化学和物理化学是建校时设立的硕士学科。
• The College of Economics and Management traces its origin to the economics department founded in 1978 and now has six departments, eight undergraduate majors and MBA and EMBA programmes.经济管理学院前身为 1978 年设立的经济学系，现设 6 个系、8 个本科专业，并开设工商管理硕士和高级管理人员工商管理硕士项目。
• The College of Foreign Languages teaches English, Japanese and Russian and hosts the university's Canadian and Australian studies centres, which are among China's better-known research units for those two countries.外国语学院开设英语、日语和俄语专业，并设有加拿大研究中心和澳大利亚研究中心，这两个中心在国内相关研究领域较有影响。
• About 2,414 staff work at the university, including 1,303 full-time teachers and researchers, of whom 744 are professors or associate professors.学校有教职工约 2,414 人，其中专任教师和研究人员 1,303 人，教授、副教授 744 人。
• Courses are taught in Chinese and Mongolian, with selected programmes in English, Japanese and Russian, and Mongolian-medium students must also complete Chinese-language courses.教学以汉语和蒙古语为主，部分专业开设英语、日语和俄语课程，蒙古语授课学生同时须修读汉语课程。
• The College of Transportation, formed in 2008, trains students in road and bridge engineering, vehicle engineering and transport management through five undergraduate majors and eleven vocational programmes.交通学院成立于 2008 年，以道路工程、桥梁工程、汽车工程、交通运输和工程管理 5 个本科专业和 11 个高职专业培养学生。
• The College of Computer Science and Technology shares its teaching body with the software college and hosts the regional key laboratory for Mongolian information processing technology.计算机学院与软件学院为同一实体，并承建内蒙古自治区蒙古文信息处理技术重点实验室。
• The College of Arts, which grew out of the Inner Mongolia Art School in 1987, trains performers in music, dance and fine arts at diploma, bachelor's and master's levels.艺术学院前身为 1987 年并入的内蒙古艺术学校，在专科、本科和硕士层次培养音乐、舞蹈和美术人才。
• The university maintains 28 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, engineering research centres and humanities research bases, and publishes the Journal of Inner Mongolia University in Mongolian, humanities and natural sciences editions.学校建有 28 个省部级重点实验室、工程技术研究中心和人文社会科学重点研究基地，并出版蒙古文版、人文社会科学版和自然科学版三种《内蒙古大学学报》。
• It has signed exchange and cooperation agreements with 20 foreign universities and admits international students through a dedicated application procedure.学校与 20 所国外高校签署了交流合作协议，并通过专门的申请程序招收留学生。
• The International Education College teaches Chinese and Mongolian to students from nearly twenty countries, including the United States, Japan, Russia, Mongolia and Canada, and offers Mongolian in both Hudum and Cyrillic scripts.国际教育学院面向来自美国、日本、俄罗斯、蒙古国、加拿大等近二十个国家的学生教授汉语和蒙古语，蒙古语教学分回鹘体蒙古文和基里尔蒙古文两种。
• One academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering works full time at the university, supported by five double-appointed academicians.学校有全职两院院士 1 人，另有双聘院士 5 人。

Campus

• The university has four campuses, three of them in Hohhot, covering about 1.99 million square metres, or roughly 199 hectares.学校共有四个校区，其中三个位于呼和浩特，校园总占地面积约 199 万平方米，合 199 公顷。
• The main North Campus occupies 560 mu beside Manduhai Park and contains the main teaching building, the library, the Mongolian studies college and a Mongolian-style sports and culture hall.校本部北校区占地 560 亩，紧邻满都海公园，内有主楼、图书馆、蒙古学学院楼和文体馆。
• Taoli Lake, a 13,000-square-metre artificial lake, takes up about one twenty-eighth of the main campus and is surrounded by the library, the computer building and the sports hall.桃李湖水面 13,000 余平方米，约占校本部面积的二十八分之一，四周分布着图书馆、计算机楼和文体馆。
• The lake was dug by staff and students when the university was built, and its island, pavilion and trees make it the best-known landscape on campus.桃李湖由建校初期的师生共同开挖，湖心有岛、岛上有亭，是校园中最知名的景观。
• The North Campus also holds a nationalities museum, a bronze statue of Genghis Khan with its square, a swimming pool, the university hospital and the Taoli Lake Hotel, which together make it the social centre of the university.北校区还建有民族博物馆、成吉思汗青铜像及广场、游泳池、校医院和桃李湖宾馆，是学校活动最集中的区域。
• The South Campus lies on Zhaojun Road beyond the Xiaohei River, houses the transportation and arts colleges, and is served by Neida Nanxiaoqu station on Hohhot Metro Line 2.南校区位于小黑河以南的昭君路，驻有交通学院和艺术学院，呼和浩特地铁 2 号线在内大南校区设站。
• The South Campus is much larger and more open than the north, with a national transgenic laboratory, a student activity centre, a gymnasium, an artificial lake and extensive green space.南校区面积远大于北校区，布局较为开阔，建有国家转基因实验室、学生活动中心、体育馆、人工湖和大片绿地。
• The East Campus is primarily residential, with dormitories, dining halls and student activity space for undergraduates.东校区以生活功能为主，建有学生宿舍、食堂和学生活动空间。
• Manzhouli College, in the border city of Manzhouli in Hulunbuir, was founded with the local government and concentrates on humanities and social science programmes.满洲里学院位于呼伦贝尔边境城市满洲里，由学校与地方政府合作创办，以文科专业为主。
• An eleven-storey comprehensive teaching building with a Mongolian yurt-shaped dome stands southeast of Taoli Lake, close to the library and the culture and sports hall.桃李湖东南侧矗立着十一层高的综合教学楼，楼顶为蒙古包式穹顶，与图书馆、文体馆相邻。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Inner Mongolia University is placed in the 901-1000 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，内蒙古大学位列第 901-1000 名区间。
• U.S. News ranks it 1,351st in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中，学校位列第 1,351 名。
• It is not listed in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• It is not listed in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• The Best Chinese Universities Ranking, published by ShanghaiRanking, placed it 113th in China in 2023.上海软科发布的 2023 年中国最好大学排名中，学校位列全国第 113 位。
• It has stayed among the top 200 Chinese universities in that domestic ranking every year since 2015.自 2015 年起，学校在该国内榜单中始终位居全国前 200 名。
• It is the only national key university in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and is consistently ranked as the region's leading university.学校是内蒙古自治区唯一的全国重点大学，长期位居自治区高校首位。
• Its Project 211 membership, granted in 1997, and its 2017 Double First-Class designation are the two national labels most often cited in its official profile.1997 年获得的「211 工程」身份和 2017 年的「双一流」认定，是学校官方介绍中最常提及的两个国家级标签。
• The University Rankings by Academic Performance placed it 954th worldwide in its 2026-2027 edition.在 2026-2027 年度大学学术表现排名中，学校位居全球第 954 位。

Student life

• The Inner Mongolia University Cultural Festival has been held every May since the mid-1980s and is the oldest of the university's campus festivals.内蒙古大学文化节自 20 世纪 80 年代中期起每年 5 月举办，是学校历史最悠久的校园节日。
• The annual track and field games take place in May and rotate between the north and south campuses, with every college except the graduate school entering teams.学校田径运动会每年 5 月举行，由南北校区轮流承办，除研究生院外各学院均组队参加。
• The Youth Science, Technology and Culture Art Festival runs for about a month in the summer term and is organised by the student union.青年科技文化艺术节在夏季学期举行，为期约一个月，由校学生联合会承办。
• The club culture festival in the autumn term brings together more than 60 student societies across academic, arts and sports categories.秋季学期的社团文化节汇集 60 余个学生社团，涵盖学术、文艺和体育等类别。
• Five major student organisations operate on campus, namely the student union, the federation of student societies, the student community youth working committee, the Qizhi website and the campus television station.校内主要有五大青年学生组织，即学生联合会、社团联合会、学生社区团工委、旗帜网站和校园电视台。
• The student-run Qizhi website publishes campus news and in 2012 covered the Earth Hour campaign under the headline Switch off one lamp, light up the whole earth.学生运营的旗帜网站发布校园新闻，2012 年曾以「熄灭一盏灯，点亮整个地球」为题报道地球一小时活动。
• The Love Confession Ball is held on 20 May each year, a date chosen because its digits sound like the Chinese phrase for I love you.告白舞会每年 5 月 20 日举行，因「520」谐音「我爱你」而得名。
• The Golden Microphone host competition in November or December selects the hosts who front the university's major events.金话筒主持人大赛每年 11 月或 12 月举办，选拔校级大型活动的主持人。
• October brings both the freshman sports meet and the music gala at which the top ten campus singers are chosen.每年 10 月既有新生运动会，也有评选校园十大歌手的音乐盛典。
• The Mid-Autumn lantern riddle fair, organised by the student community committee, is the first large festival event of the new academic year.由学生社区团工委主办的中秋灯谜会是新学年第一个大型节日活动。

Notable people

• Ulanhu, the founding president, was the first chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and served as a vice premier of the People's Republic of China.首任校长乌兰夫是内蒙古自治区首任主席，并曾任中华人民共和国国务院副总理。
• Li Jitong, a plant ecologist who had taught at Peking University, served as vice president from 1957 until his death in 1961.李继侗是曾在北京大学任教的植物生态学家，1957 年起任副校长，直至 1961 年去世。
• Li Bo, a phytoecologist associated with the university, died in 1998 in a traffic accident in Hungary.李博是与学校渊源深厚的植物生态学家，1998 年在匈牙利因交通事故去世。
• B. Shorgan, president from 1993 to 2006, is a reproductive biologist and academician known for his research on animal embryo engineering.旭日干于 1993 至 2006 年任校长，是生殖生物学家、院士，以动物胚胎工程研究著称。
• Chinggeltei (1924-2013) was a Mongolian linguist whose grammars and dictionaries shaped the teaching of written Mongolian at the university.清格尔泰（1924 至 2013 年）是蒙古语言学家，其语法和词典著作奠定了学校蒙古语教学的基础。
• Choijinzhab (1931-2022), another Mongolian linguist, directed the university's Mongolian language research for decades.确精扎布（1931 至 2022 年）同为蒙古语言学家，长期主持学校的蒙古语研究工作。
• Ba Bulinbeihe, born in 1928, is a poet who writes in Mongolian and is counted among the university's humanities alumni.巴·布林贝赫生于 1928 年，是以蒙古文创作的诗人，被视为学校人文学科的代表校友。
• Shi Wenzheng, a jurist, is listed among the university's notable humanities alumni.史文正是法学家，被列入学校知名人文社科校友之列。
• Tengger, the singer known for his Mongolian-themed pop songs, studied at the College of Arts after it joined the university in 1987.腾格尔以蒙古族题材的流行歌曲闻名，曾在并入学校后的艺术学院学习。
• Dedema, a soprano celebrated for Mongolian long-song repertoire, is also an alumna of the College of Arts.德德玛是演唱蒙古族长调的女高音歌唱家，同样出自艺术学院。
• Wang Duo served briefly as president in 1978, between Ulanhu's long tenure and the appointment of Yu Beichen.王铎于 1978 年短暂出任校长，时在乌兰夫长期主政之后、于北辰接任之前。
• Yang Jing, born in 1953, studied at the university before serving as chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from 2003.杨晶生于 1953 年，曾在学校学习，2003 年起任内蒙古自治区主席。