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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，被社会誉为“民族教育的摇篮”。
学校有赛罕校区和盛乐校区，占地总面积3800余亩（约253公顷）。学校下设27个教学机构，3个合作办学学院，4所附属学校。学校学科涵盖10大学科门类，招生专业72个。学校拥有博士学位授予权一级学科5个，博士后科研流动站1个，硕士学位授予权一级学科27个，硕士专业学位10种；学校现有在校全日制本专科生30971人，其中蒙古语授课本专科生6398人，有各类研究生4037人，各类成人教育学生573人，各类留学生605人，形成了多层次的人才培养体系。
建校68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余个国家高校和科研机构建立了合作与交流关系，师生国际合作交流日益扩大和深入。学校设有澳大利亚研究中心、俄罗斯研究中心、蒙古学国际研究中心，与俄罗斯克拉斯诺雅尔斯克国立师范大学合作建有1所孔子学院。学校是教育部第一批认定为有资格接受外国留学生的全国200所院校之一，内蒙古自治区蒙古国留学生汉语预科培养基地、国家汉办来华留学生新汉语水平网考考点，是接受中国政府奖学金、内蒙古自治区政府奖学金和孔子学院奖学金来华留学生高校。学校设有国际交流学院和二连国际学院招收来华留学生，其中国际交流学院位于呼和浩特市，接收来自蒙古、俄罗斯、韩国、日本、柬埔寨、老挝、孟加拉、泰国、越南、巴基斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、美国、苏丹等15个国家的来华留学生200余人。
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。