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About MSU
Montana State University owes its beginnings to President Abraham Lincoln and the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act. As one of the nation's land-grant universities, MSU dedicates itself to three missions: education, research, and outreach. Historically strong in agriculture and engineering, MSU's programs have grown over the last century to include such diverse studies as paleontology, equine science and snow science. MSU has the world's only master's degree in science and natural history filmmaking. Biotechnology dominates the list of faculty inventions.
Education
MSU has seven colleges and offers baccalaureate degrees in 51 fields, master's degrees in 41 fields, and doctoral degrees in 18 fields.
Personality and educational niche
MSU is a vibrant and growing institution, where students, faculty and staff enjoy a challenging and collaborative atmosphere that fosters innovation, exploration and creativity in a spectacular Rocky Mountain setting. MSU is in the country's top 100 research universities, and every undergraduate has the opportunity to participate in a research or creative project.
Students
Approximately 12,000 students enroll at MSU annually. While the number of out-of-state students increases each year, the majority of students (67 percent in 2004-05) are from Montana. Entering freshman in 2004 had an average GPA of 3.31 Montanans hail from both the mountainous, more densely populated western part of the state, as well as from the central and eastern plains where agriculture is king. About 240 students are Native American. Nearly 370 foreign students from 60 countries enrolled at MSU in 2004-05.
Faculty
MSU has 570 full-time tenured faculty, many of them nationally [Ed Adams, avalanches] or internationally [David Varrichio dinosaur parenting] recognized researchers. They choose to live and work in Montana for its modest pace, outdoor lifestyle and independent, self-sufficient nature of Montana's residents.
Research
As a regional leader in research and creative projects, MSU neared $100 million in research expenditurees in FY 2005. Most awards are competitively awarded federal grants. Agriculture, physics, chemistry, microbiology and engineering attracted the bulk of research monies. MSU is also known for its work in western history, Native American studies, architecture, and media and theatre arts. A number of faculty and students travel regularly to field sites in neighboring Yellowstone National Park, an hour's drive south of Bozeman.
Yellowstone Research
The 2.2 million acre park provides research settings for researchers from around the world including students and faculty from MSU. Research varies from wolf-elk studies to trout and whirling disease, microbiology in Yellowstone's thermal features, plant ecology and more. Researchers conduct projects year round in one of the world's most unique places.
President's Office
MSU President Geoffrey Gamble became the 11th president of the university in December 2000. He is the author of numerous scholarly papers, articles and books on Native American languages. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as other organizations.
Economic impact
Dollars from out-of-state sources to MSU in FY 2004 total $172,664,041. Montana Invests figures (www.montanainvests.org) include federal grants and contracts ($87,614,433), private funds ($8,820,601 and non-resident student tuition ($16,689,535). Faculty, staff and students inject $178,116,948 annually into Montana's economy.
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