Officials from Inner Mongolia Normal University (IMNU) and government bodies in Inner Mongolia celebrate the establishment of School of Journalism and Communications in 2011. [Photo/imnu.edu.cn]

The School of Journalism and Communications was co-built by IMNU and the Party publicity department of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

The School of Journalism grew out of the IMNU Department of Journalism, which was established in 2002. It became a demonstration center for experimental teaching in the autonomous region in 2011. In 2014, the Party publicity department of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region signed an agreement with IMNU to establish the School of Journalism and Communications, merging the former School of Literature, School of Mongolian Studies and School of Communication. 

The school has three undergraduate majors -- journalism, radio and TV editing and directing, and techniques of broadcasting and hosting. It has two master-accredited disciplines in drama and film studies, and news and communication. The school has nearly 1,000 undergraduates and graduate students. It has five multimedia laboratories, three professional studios, two digital nonlinear editing rooms, a digital language lab, a network news lab, a newspaper layout laboratory and a photographic studio. The school library houses up to 336,000 books on journalism and communication. About 330,000 of them are in Chinese Mandarin while 6,000 are in English. The school also has a paper degree database, and an electronic library which provides the access to more than 20 kinds of domestic and international professional journals.

The school has signed agreements on student training with more than 30 media units, including People's Daily Online, Xinhuanet, the Inner Mongolia channel, the Inner Mongolia radio and television station, the Inner Mongolia daily (media) group, solongo.net, the Hohhot radio and television station, the Baotou radio and television station, the Erenhot radio and television station and Northern weekend news.