Montana State University - Bozeman
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| Motto | Mountains & Minds |
| Established | 1893 |
| Type | public, land-grant, coed |
| President | Geoffrey Gamble |
| Faculty | 553 full-time 275 part-time |
| Undergraduates | 10,842 |
| Postgraduates | 1,408 |
| Location | Bozeman, Montana, USA |
| Campus | Rural: 1170 acres (4.7 km²) |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| Nickname | Bobcats |
| Affiliations | Big Sky Conference, NCAA D-I |
| Website | www.montana.edu |
Montana State University - Bozeman (MSU) is a public university located in Bozeman, Montana, USA. It is the main campus in the Montana State University System. MSU offers baccalaureate degrees in 51 fields, master's degrees in 41 fields, and doctoral degrees in 18 fields through its nine colleges.
Over 12,000 students attend MSU, and the university faculty numbers approximately 700 full-time and 300 part-time. The university's main campus in Bozeman is also home to KUSM and the Museum of the Rockies. MSU provides outreach services to citizens and communities statewide through its eight Agricultural Experiment Stations and 60 county and reservation Extension Offices.
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[edit] History
MSU was founded in 1893 as the Agricultural College of the State of Montana, the state's land-grant college. Later renamed the Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, by the 1920s it was most often referred to as Montana State College (MSC). Recognizing the institution's growth and excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, the state assembly renamed the institution Montana State University on July 1, 1965. Located in scenic Bozeman at an altitude of 4800 feet, the university's sprawling 1170 acre (4.7 km²) campus is the largest in the state.
[edit] Distinguishing facts
MSU is the national leader for Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowships and is among the top ten institutions in the country for recipients of Goldwater Scholarships. The university counts among its graduates several Rhodes and Truman scholars, and MSU has consistently produced winners of USA Today Academic All-America honors. U.S. News and World Report has routinely listed MSU as one of America's "best buys" for undergraduate education, and ranks it in the third tier of National Universities. Montana State University offers the world's only Master of Fine Arts degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking, and MSU's Museum of the Rockies is home to the largest T. Rex skull ever found--bigger, even, than "Sue" at the Chicago Field Museum.
[edit] Athletics
MSU athletic teams are nicknamed the Bobcats, and they participate in NCAA Division I (I-AA for football) in the Big Sky Conference, of which Montana State University is a charter member. Originally playing as the Aggies, men's teams compete in football, basketball, track, cross-country, skiing, and tennis. Women's teams include volleyball, basketball, track, cross-country, tennis, golf, and skiing. The school has won several national championships in men's rodeo.
Montana State boasts one of college basketball's legendary teams, the Golden Bobcats of the late 1920s. The school's basketball teams had acclaimed fame throughout that decade by playing "racehorse basketball," becoming one of the first schools in the nation to employ what we know as the fast break. Montana State coach Ott Romney, a graduate of the school himself, pioneered that style of play, and by 1926 had assembled a team perfectly suited to playing an up-tempo brand of ball. Cat Thompson, Frank Ward, Val Glynn and Max Worthington for the heart of the Rocky Mountains' best basketball team, as MSC won the Rocky Mountain Conference title three straight seasons, besting powerful outfits from Utah State, BYU, Colorado, and Denver U each season. The 1928-29 team reached college basketball's zenith, defeating the AAU Champion Cook's Painters in a two-of-three series and steamrolling to the Rocky Mountain Conference title. The team was named National Champions by the Helms Foundation, which also eventually named Cat Thompson one of the five greatest players in the first half of the 20th century in college hoops. Here are the sports they have:
- Men's Basketball
- Women's Basketball
- Men's Cross Country
- Women's Cross Country
- Football
- Women's Golf
- Men's Skiing
- Women's Skiing
- Men's Tennis
- Women's Tennis
- Men's Track & Field
- Women's Track & Field
- Women's Volleyball
Non-school sponsored sports:
- Men's Hockey
[edit] Colleges
- College of Agriculture
- College of Arts and Architecture
- College of Business
- College of Education, Health & Human Development
- College of Engineering
- College of Letters and Science
- College of Nursing
- College of Technology in Bozeman
- University College
- College of Graduate Studies
[edit] Notable alumni
- Kevin Donovan - film director
- Dennis Erickson - former NFL head coach and the current head football coach at Arizona State University.
- Jon Johnson - film sound editor
- Craig Kilborn - talk show host and actor
- David S. Lee - Chairman of the Board, eOn Communications Corporation, and Regent, University of California
- Alex Lowe - prior to his death in October, 1999, considered by many to be the world’s best climber
- Brian Schweitzer - Governor of Montana
- Mary Schweitzer - North Carolina State University paleontologist, first to discover soft tissues in a dinosaur bone
- Jan Stenerud - NFL Hall of Fame kicker
- Joe Tiller - Head football coach at Purdue University
- Sarah Vowell - writer and journalist with PRI's This American Life
[edit] See also
Category:Montana State University alumni
[edit] External links
- Montana State University - Bozeman website
- Montana State University - School of Architecture
- Montana State University - Bozeman information and statistics
- Montana State University - Bozeman athletics
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