Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, founded in 1952, is the earliest undergraduate institution of higher learning in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Its predecessor was Inner Mongolia Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College, and it was signed and appointed as the first president by Comrade Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Central People's Government. 1958 was renamed Inner Mongolia Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College. In the same year, Inner Mongolia Forestry College was established in Inner Mongolia. 1999 with the decision of the autonomous region government and the approval of the Ministry of Education, Inner Mongolia Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College and Inner Mongolia Forestry College merged to form Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. At present, the school is a key institution supported by the national western development, one of the national college students' cultural quality education bases, and the president unit of the National Grass Industry Association. The vocational and technical college under the school is the construction unit of the national higher vocational and technical education demonstration college.

After 50 years of development and construction, especially after 1999, the strength and scale of the school have been further improved. Now there are 8 disciplines including agriculture, engineering, science, economics, management, literature, teaching and law, and 29 two disciplines. It has formed a multi-level and multi-form school-running system with undergraduate education as the mainstay, postgraduate education, undergraduate education, junior college education, adult education and higher vocational education. Since its establishment 50 years ago, * * * has trained more than 60,000 talents for the society.

The school has animal science and medicine college, agricultural college, ecological environment college, electromechanical engineering college, forestry college, water conservancy and civil engineering college, forestry engineering college, economic management college, food science and engineering college, computer and information engineering college, bioengineering college, humanities and social sciences college, foreign languages college, science college, graduate school (to be determined), continuing education college, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University Branch of Central Agricultural Cadre Education and Training Center, The Institute of International Education and Vocational and Technical College *** 19 College, 1 Department of Physical Education and 654333 currently have 1 national key disciplines, 8 autonomous region-level key disciplines, 1 key disciplines of the Ministry of Agriculture, 2 post-doctoral research stations, 6 first-level disciplines for doctoral degree authorization and 33 doctoral degree authorization points in two disciplines. There are 55 undergraduate majors. Among them, Mongolian and Chinese bilingual teaching major 12. There are more than 23,600 students in school. Among them, full-time master and doctoral students 1495.

The quality of teachers in the school is good and the structure is reasonable. The school has full-time teachers 12 10. Among them, there are 0/53 professors and 379 associate professors. There are 57 doctoral supervisors and 265 master supervisors; 7 1 experts who enjoy special state allowances; 33 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the state and the autonomous region; Five people were selected into the National Million Talents Project, 37 people were selected into the first and second levels of "32 1 Talent Project" in the autonomous region, and 2 1 person was selected into the first and second levels of "1Talent Training Project" in the autonomous region.

There are 42 laboratories in the school, including 5 provincial key laboratories, 3 provincial engineering centers, and the total value of teaching equipment is 1 .47 billion yuan. The total area of the school is 9 1 1.78 hectares, and the building area of the school building is 8365438+ 10,000 square meters. 4. Standard track and field venues (stadiums). The library has a building area of 29,400 square meters and a collection of books1182,000 volumes.

Facing the main battlefield of economic construction, the school adheres to the road of combining "Industry-University-Research". In the past five years, * * * has undertaken 489 scientific research projects of the state and the autonomous region, with the project funding of1.1.50 billion yuan, and 68 research achievements have won national, provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological progress awards. Research on National Natural Science Foundation Project 100, with total funding of193.55 million yuan.

The school has strengthened foreign exchanges and established inter-school cooperation and exchange relations with more than 20 universities, scientific research institutions and non-governmental organizations in more than ten countries, including the United States, Japan, Russia, Britain, Canada and Mongolia.

The guiding ideology of running a school in the new period is: under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, fully implement the party's educational policy and ethnic policy, and adhere to the socialist direction of running a school; Change educational ideas, update educational concepts, take talent training as the fundamental task, reform as the driving force, development as the theme, undergraduate education as the foundation and teaching as the center, and comprehensively improve the quality of education and teaching and the efficiency of running schools; Follow the law of education, correctly handle the relationship between scale, structure, quality and benefit, and promote the sustainable development of schools; Carry out the strategy of "developing the western region" and "rejuvenating the country through science and education", give full play to the advantages of the school, serve "agriculture, countryside and farmers" and serve the economic construction and social development of the autonomous region.

School goal orientation: to make the school a training base for senior scientific and technological personnel in the autonomous region, a scientific and technological innovation base for agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry and a transformation base for scientific and technological achievements in agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry; Build the school into the first in the autonomous region and an advanced agricultural university of its kind in China.

Orientation of school-running type: take teaching as the center, actively create conditions, and strive to develop into a teaching and research university.

Orientation of school-running level: giving priority to undergraduate education, actively developing postgraduate education and moderately developing vocational and technical education. Cultivate applied senior scientific and technological and management talents with thick foundation, wide caliber, strong ability, high quality, innovative ability, practical ability and entrepreneurial spirit.

The orientation of the school's disciplines: give priority to agriculture, and coordinate the development of agriculture, engineering, science, economics, management and literature to form disciplines and professional groups with regional characteristics, national characteristics and disciplinary advantages to meet the needs of economic construction and social development in the autonomous region.

Orientation of school service: based on Inner Mongolia, serving "agriculture, countryside and farmers" and economic construction, social development and scientific and technological progress in the autonomous region.

School-running characteristics: In the long-term process of running a school, relying on the geographical advantages, resource advantages and characteristic economic advantages of animal husbandry in Inner Mongolia, the school has formed a school-running characteristic that adapts to the characteristics of ethnic areas and focuses on grassland animal husbandry.

At present, the school is deepening the reform of education and teaching, scientifically formulating the 11th Five-Year Plan under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, striving to improve the quality and efficiency of running a school, cultivating applied senior scientific and technological management talents with strong foundation, broad caliber, strong ability, high quality, innovative ability, practical ability and entrepreneurial spirit, actively creating conditions and striving to develop into a teaching and research university.