It is neither 985 nor 2 1 1. According to the lists of 985 and 2 1 1, Inner Mongolia Normal University was established in 1952, neither 985 nor 2 1 1. It is the earliest institution of higher learning established by the party and the state in the frontier minority areas after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it is a key university in the autonomous region with distinctive normal education and ethnic characteristics.