About Montana State University Billings

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Montana State University Billings (or MSU Billings) is a public university in Billings, Montana. It is the state’s third largest university. Its campus is located on 110 acres in downtown Billings. Formerly Eastern Montana Normal School at its founding in 1927, the Normal School misrepresented its pronounce to Eastern Montana College of Education in 1949. It was again renamed in 1965 as Eastern Montana College (EMC). It compound into the Montana University System in 1994 below its present name. Currently, the academic world offers higher than 100 specialized programs for certificates, associate, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees through the University’s five colleges. The five colleges of Montana State University Billings are Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Business, Health Professions and Science, Education, and City College.

Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population estimated at 109,577 as of 2019. Located in the south-central part of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, which had an estimated population of 180,385 in 2018. It has a trade Place of higher than 500,000.

Billings was nicknamed the “Magic City” because of its short growth from its founding as a railroad town in March 1882. With one of the largest trade areas in the United States, Billings is the trade and distribution center for much of Montana east of the Continental Divide, Northern Wyoming, and western portions of North Dakota and South Dakota. Billings is next the largest retail destination for much of the same area.

The city is experiencing short growth and a mighty economy; it has had and is continuing to have the largest bump of any city in Montana. Parts of the metro area are seeing hyper growth. From 2000 to 2010 Lockwood, an eastern suburb, saw growth of 57.8%, the largest increase rate of any community in Montana. Billings has avoided the economic downturn that affected most of the nation from 2008 to 2012 as competently as the housing bust. With more hotel accommodations than any area within a five-state region, the city hosts a variety of conventions, concerts, sporting events, and additional rallies. With the Bakken oil early payment in eastern Montana and western North Dakota, the largest oil discovery in U.S. history, as capably as the Heath shale oil discovery just north of Billings, the city’s addition rate stayed tall during the shale oil boom. Although the city is growing, its buildup rate has diminished markedly when oil price declines in recent years.

Area attractions enlarge Pompey’s Pillar, Pictograph Cave, Chief Plenty Coups State Park, Zoo Montana, and Yellowstone Art Museum. Within 100 miles are Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Red Lodge Mountain Resort, and the Beartooth Highway, which friends Red Lodge to Yellowstone National Park.