About University of Montana

The University of Montana (UM) is a public research the academy in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fall of 2018. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity”.

The University of Montana ranks 17th in the nation and fifth among public universities in producing Rhodes Scholars; it has 11 Truman Scholars, 14 Goldwater Scholars, and 40 Udall Scholars to its name.

Missoula /mɪˈzuːlə/ (listen) is a city in the U.S. state of Montana; it is the county chair of Missoula County. It is located along the Clark Fork River near its confluence afterward the Bitterroot and Blackfoot Rivers in western Montana and at the convergence of five mountain ranges, thus it is often described as the “hub of five valleys”. In 2019, the United States Census Bureau estimated the city’s population at 75,516 and the population of the Missoula Metropolitan Area at 118,791. After Billings, Missoula is the second-largest city and metropolitan area in Montana. Missoula is house to the University of Montana, a public research university.

The Missoula Place was first settled in 1858 by William T. Hamilton similar to a trading post near current Missoula along the Rattlesnake Creek, by Captain Richard Grant, who settled close Grant Creek, and by David Pattee, who settled near Pattee Canyon. Missoula was founded in 1860 as Hellgate Trading Post while nevertheless part of Washington Territory. By 1866, the agreement had moved east, 5 miles (8 km) upstream, and had been renamed Missoula Mills, later edited to Missoula. The mills provided supplies to western settlers traveling along the Mullan Road. The commencement of Fort Missoula in 1877 to protect settlers supplementary stabilized the economy. The start of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1883 brought hasty growth and the maturation of the local lumber industry. In 1893, the Montana Legislature chose Missoula as the site for the state’s first university. Along following the U.S. Forest Service headquarters founded in 1908, lumber and the academic world remained the basis of the local economy for the bordering 100 years.

By the 1990s, Missoula’s lumber industry had gradually disappeared, and as of 2009, the city’s largest employers were the University of Montana, Missoula County Public Schools, and Missoula’s two hospitals. The city is governed by a mayor–council paperwork with 12 city council members, two from each of the six wards. In and in the region of Missoula are 400 acres (160 ha) of parkland, 22 miles (35 km) of trails, and nearly 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of open-space conservation land, with next-door Mount Jumbo being house to grazing elk and mule deer during the winter. The city is also home to both of Montana’s largest and its oldest nimble breweries, as with ease as the Montana Grizzlies, one of the strongest moot football programs in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Notable residents count the first woman to sustain in the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin.