外国语学院的前身是外语系，英语专业始建于1995年，随着学校办学规模的不断扩大， 2000年成立了外国语学院。经过十几年的发展，外国语学院的办学已初具规模，以培养有扎实外语功底的，能适应内蒙古地方经济建设需求的复合型、应用型人才为办学宗旨。
学院下设教授委员会，学院行政办公室，学生工作办公室，英语系，大学外语一部，大学外语二部，高职教学部，语言实验与自主学习中心等8个部门。
外国语学院承担英语专业本科教学任务以及英语专业的第二外语课程；全校本科生、大专生和研究生等大学外语教学任务；为全校学生开设外语选修课程；另外，还为全校学生开设日语、德语、俄语等公共选修课程。
经过十多年的努力，外语学院为社会各界输送各类外语人才近千名。英语专业学制四年，每年招生规模稳定在三个班（90人），英语系共有英语语言文学、商务英语、英语+小语种三个教研团队。英语专业的教学质量已经在国内得到广泛认可，学生在全国性的英语演讲比赛之中屡有获奖，考生第一志愿录取率为100%，具有优良的生源条件。这些毕业生分布在全国各个教学、科研院所和政府机关、企事业单位，为国家及内蒙古的经济建设做出了重大贡献。现在正在努力申报英语语言文学硕士点
学院目前有教职工共100人，其中2名管理岗，3名辅导员，3名语音实验室工作人员，其余教师全部承担大学英语或专业课程。职称结构方面，学院目前有教授6人，副教授42人，讲师47人，以及助教5人。副高级和讲师人数占比较大。学历结构方面，学院目前有博士学位教师2人，硕士学位教师73人，其中包括博士在读2人，学士学位教师24人。教师留学背景方面，我院目前有50人拥有留学经历，其中12人具有国外学历。我院师资队伍学术背景良好，年龄结构合理，具有巨大的创新发展潜力。
学院十分重视师资队伍建设，近年来，先后有14人申报出国留学项目并成功到英、美、加拿大等国做访问学者和出国深造；有20多人先后考取研究生；并先后引进全国各重点院校的研究生人才30多名。师资队伍的学历层次得到了多元化的提升，为学院的长远发展奠定了良好的基础。
学校图书馆有外文阅览室一个，拥有各类外语图书资料6万册，学院拥有一个图书资料室，拥有各类外语图书资料1.6万册；学院现有语言实验室12个（480座）、数字化广播电台一座、大学生自主学习中心2个（320座）以及40座的同声传译实验室。
学院注重广大教师的教学研究水平的提升，近年来，我院教师在全国各类学术刊物发表文章300余篇，其中核心刊物10余篇；学院教师积极投身于校级、内蒙古自治区级以及国家级教研项目的申报，2005年以来我院申报各级教改项目32项，获国家级立项2项，自治区级批准立项8项，获校级批准15项。其中有2个教研立项获得自治区级优秀教学成果一等奖；出版教材5部。为学院的深层次发展奠定良好的基础。
The predecessor of the Foreign Language School is the Foreign Language Department. The English Major was founded in 1995. With the expansion of the size of the university, the Foreign Language School was established in 2000. After more than a decade of development, the Foreign Language School has taken shape. It aims to cultivate talents with both foreign language proficiency and practical skills which can accommodate the needs of the local economic development of Inner Mongolia.
The Foreign Language School consists of 8 departments, namely, the Professor Committee, the Administration Office, the Office of Students’Affairs, the English Department, No. 1 Department of College Foreign Language, No. 2 Department of College Foreign Language, Department of Vocational Foreign Language, and Language Test and Learning Center.
For English majors, the Foreign Language School offers an array of undergraduate courses as well the second foreign language course; for undergraduates and graduates of the university, the Foreign Language School offers college foreign language teaching, foreign language elective courses, and public elective courses on Japanese, German and Russian.
After more than a decade of efforts, nearly a thousand of students have graduated from the Foreign Language School. The English Major is a four-year system, with a stable annual enrollment of 3 classes (90 students). The English Department has three teaching and research teams, covering English Language and Literature, Business English, and less popular languages. The teaching quality of the English Department has been widely acknowledged at home. Students from the English Department have won many awards in National English Speech Contests. The Foreign Language School boasts of excellent student sources, since all were accepted by their first choices in the entrance examination. The graduates are now working in various teaching and scientific research institutions, government bodies, enterprises and government-sponsored institutions, who have made significant contribution to the economic development of Inner Mongolia as well as the whole nation. Currently an English MA Program is being applied.
Currently, we are staffed with 100 full-time faculties, including 2 management staff, 3 instructors, 3 staff for language lab management, and all the others responsible for teaching activities. For academic titles, there are 6 professors, 42 associate professors, 47 lecturers, and 5 teaching assistants. For educational background, over 77% of our staff are master’s degree holders and four of the faculty are PhDs or PhD candidates. For overseas study background, 50 of our faculty have ever studied abroad, among whom 12 are holders of renowned overseas master’s degree. We are a team with substantial academic background, reasonable age composition, innovation capacity and development potentials.
The Foreign Language School attaches great importance to faculty development. In recent years, 14 faculty members have been visiting scholars to countries including the UK, the U.S., and Canada; more than 20 faculty members passed the entrance exam for graduate students, and the School has recruited more than 30 graduates from key Chinese universities. The upgrading of the academic level of the faculty members has laid a solid foundation for the future development of the School.
There is one Foreign Language Study Room in the University Library, with 60,000 volumes of books in foreign languages. Besides, the School has its own library with 16,000 volumes of foreign language books. Currently the School has 12 language labs (480 seats), a digital radio station, 2 self-study centers (320 seats), and 1 simultaneous interpretation lab with 40 seats.
The School also attaches great importance to the upgrading of the teaching and research capacities of faculty members. In recent years, our teachers have published more than 300 articles in all types of academic journals, among which more than 10 in core journals, and they have participated in 32 educational reform programs of the university, province and state level. There have been 2 state-level programs, 8 province-level programs, and 15 university-level programs. Among them, 2 of the educational reform programs won the first prize for outstanding teaching achievement in Inner Mongolia. Five books have been published. All of these have laid a solid foundation for the further development of the School.