Founded in 1952, Inner Mongolia Normal University is the earliest university established by the government in the frontier minority areas after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, which is one of the key universities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and a comprehensive normal university with the characteristic features of both teacher education and ethnic education. After the hard pioneering and practical exploration of several generations, Inner Mongolia Normal University has become an important base to train talents of elementary education and ethnic education, as well as the compound ethnic minority talents who master both Chinese and Mongolian. It is also the training center of middle-school teachers in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the continuing education center of primary and middle-school teachers, and the research center of the reform and development of elementary education and ethnic education. Inner Mongolia Normal University is the education and training base of environment and sustainable development in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and China, the national-level training base of social sports instructors, the research center of ethnic sculpture in the autonomous region, the creation base of professional arts, and the base of popularizing humanities and social sciences. Praised as "the cradle of ethnic education", it is also the training base of all types of sports professionals in the autonomous region, the Mongolian sports professionals of the eight provinces in China, the ethnic music talents in North China, the education talents of fine arts and art design in the autonomous region. 69 years since the founding of the university, Inner Mongolia Normal University has trained and provided more than 260,000 graduates of all sorts, forging the school-running concept of seeking the truth and doing practical work, education first, academic innovation and serving the society, consolidating the school-running features of teacher education of two bachelor's degrees and training the compound ethnic minority talents who master both Chinese and Mongolian, and taking the school motto of dedication, truth-seeking, unity and striving. Persevering in open education, Inner Mongolia Normal University has established partnerships with universities and research institutes in more than 20 countries -- including Mongolia, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands, Canada and Australia, in addition to cooperating with more than 80 famous universities and colleges at home, scientific research institutes, enterprises and local government. In 2009, the university was approved to train the postgraduates of Chinese International Education. Almost 500 distinguished experts and scholars at home and abroad have been engaged as academic consultants, visiting professors and adjunct professors successively, including 7 academicians of the two academies (Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering) and 4 academicians with Chinese Academy of Social Science. In the new historical stage of development, Inner Mongolia Normal University is transforming and developing according to the notion of integration into the society, serving the society and leading the society. It is serving the local development of economy and society, and the construction of the Belt and Road, as well as making unremitting endeavor to build Inner Mongolia Normal University an advanced and comprehensive normal university with distinctive features and innovation.

内蒙古师范大学创建于1952年，是新中国成立后党和国家在边疆少数民族地区最早建立的高等学校，自治区重点大学，是具有鲜明教师教育和民族教育特色的综合性师范大学。经过几代人的艰苦创业、实践探索，现已成为自治区培养基础教育、民族教育师资和蒙汉兼通少数民族复合型人才的重要基地，是自治区中学教师培养中心、中小学教师继续教育中心、基础教育与民族教育改革发展研究中心。学校也是国家及自治区环境与可持续发展教育培训基地、国家级社会体育指导员培训基地、自治区民族雕塑研究中心、专业艺术创作基地、人文社科普及基地，是自治区各类体育专业人才和全国八省区蒙古族体育人才、中国北方民族音乐人才、自治区美术、艺术设计教育人才培养基地，被社会誉为“民族教育的摇篮”

建校69年来，学校形成了“求真务实，育人至上，学术创新，服务社会”的办学理念，强化了“双学位教师教育和蒙汉兼通人才培养”的办学特色，秉承“献身、求实、团结、奋进”的校训，已培养输送各类毕业生26万余人。学校坚持开放办学，与蒙古、俄罗斯、日本、韩国、马来西亚、美国、英国、德国、法国、荷兰、加拿大、澳大利亚等20几个国家及80余个国内知名院校、科研机构、企事业单位、地方政府建立了良好的合作关系；2009年被批准为汉语国际教育硕士研究生培养单位。学校先后聘请包括7位两院院士和4位学部委员在内的近500位国内外著名专家学者任学校学术顾问、客座教授和兼职教授。

在新的历史发展阶段，学校正按照“融入社会、服务社会、引领社会”的理念转型发展，服务区域经济社会发展和“一带一路”建设，为把学校建设成为特色鲜明的创新型高水平综合性师范大学而不懈努力。