Chinese Culture Experience Program for American Students

Inner Mongolia University (IMU) is located in Hohhot City, capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region(IMAR) and a famous historic and cultural city which is over 400 kilometers away from Beijing. Being the first university which was established by the Communist Paty of China(CPC) and the state in ethnic minority regions after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, IMU was launched at a high starting point in 1957. IMU was approved to enroll postgraduate students in 1962, designated as one of 88 key universities in China in 1978 and authorized to confer doctoral degrees in 1984. It was included into Project 211 for the building of key universities in 1997, listed as a university co-sponsored by the People’s Government of IMAR and the Ministry of Education in 2004 and incorporated into the state program for building one high-level university in each of the provinces in the mid-western region of China in 2012. The university was selected as one of the universities in China to build the first-class disciplines in 2017 and chosen as a university co-supported by MOE and the People’s Government of IMAR in 2018, i.e. a university which can enjoy the treatment of those universities under the direct administration of MOE. In 2022, IMU was picked as a candidate university for the 2nd-round building under “Double-First-Class Initiative”