Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology (IMUST) is a university in Inner Mongolia, China under the authority of the Inner Mongolia government and the education department of Chinese Education. It was formerly well known as Baotou Steel and Iron Institute. It changed to its current name in 2003, when it merged with Baotou Normal College and Baotou Medical College ; however in 2004 the three institutes resumed separate governing, and the merger remains essentially only as a name now.