Montana State University is a public university located in Bozeman, Montana. It is the main campus of the Montana State University System. Other campuses include Billings, Northern MSU, and the Great Falls College of Technology. MSU
enrolls 10,842 undergraduates and 1,408 post graduates, along with employing 553 full-time faculty and 275 part-time.
MSU offers bachelor degree programs in 51 fields, master degrees in 41 fields, and doctoral degrees in 18 fields through its nine colleges. MSU is the national leader for Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowships and is among the top ten institutions in the country for Goldwater Scholarships. Among its graduates, MSU counts several Rhodes and Truman scholars, as well as winners of
USA Today's Academic All-American honors. According to
US News & World Report, MSU is consistently ranked for its undergraduate education. MSU offers the world's only
Master of Fine Arts degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking and its museum is home to the largest T. Rex skull ever found. Other programs can be found in
business,
architecture,
engineering,
agriculture, and
education.
MSU's
athletic teams, the Bobcats, participate in the NCAA Division I (I-AA for football) in the
Big Sky Conference, of which it is a charter member. MSU fields teams in men's and women's basketball, track, cross country, tennis, and skiing as well as football, golf, and volleyball. The school's century-old rivalry with the University of Montana is nicknamed the "Brawl of the Wild" or Cat-Griz. The school has won several national championships in men's rodeo.
MSU boasts a number of successful and distinguished alumni across several disciplines including talk show host and actor Craig Kilborn, mountaineer Alex Lowe, considered the world's best climber; NFL Hall of Fame kicker Jan Stenerud, and Sarah Vowell, writer and journalist with PRI's
This American Life.
