It was founded in 1951 and was originally known as the Suiyuan Higher Technical School (绥远省高级工业学校) and then after 1958 the Inner Mongolia Polytechnic Institute (内蒙古工学院) before changing to its current name in 1993.
The university is primarily an Engineering school, although it has expanded to other fields including Economics and Law.
It plays an important role in the national higher education system and has a special regional focus.
After 70 years of development, Inner Mongolia University of Technology has smelted a team of postgraduate tutors with high moral character, rigorous scholarship and high level, and built a number of distinctive scientific research platforms.
The school currently has 1 provincial and ministerial key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 1 national and local joint engineering research center approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, 41 autonomous region-level scientific research and innovation platforms, and 17 autonomous region-level innovation teams.