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The College of Letters and Science Statistics
 The College of Letters and Science (L&S) teaches 46 percent of all student credit hours at MSU.
In 2008, L&S awarded 28 percent of all bachelor’s degrees at MSU and 27 percent of all graduate degrees.
L&S is home to approximately 2,200 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students, or 21 percent of MSU students.
L&S is home to 190, or approximately 40 percent, of MSU’s tenure-track faculty.
Of the 49 MSU students who have received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships over the past 16 years, 36 have been L&S students.
MSU ranks 11th in the nation for its number of Goldwater Scholars, an award for excellence in math, science or engineering
At over $27 million, L&S has more than doubled its grant expenditures since 1996, allowing for exciting student research opportunities.
The Biomedical Science program has a 75-90 percent placement rate for its graduates into medical schools, compared to approximately 50 percent nationally.
CLS 101, a small, seminar-style course for first-year students, provides the opportunity to read, analyze, and discuss texts from diverse disciplines. Through engaged class participation, students learn to take an active role in their education.
The new 73,000 square foot Chemistry and Biochemistry Research Building (completed in 2008) provides cutting-edge laboratory space for research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
 The Department of Native American Studies offers an interdisciplinary Master of Arts degree, one of only a handful in the U.S. and the only one in the Rocky Mountain region.
Since 2002, the biology program has received $3.5 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to enhance the undergraduate biology curriculum, increase student research opportunities, and attract and retain students in the sciences.
The B.S. in Snow Science, offered by the Department of Earth Sciences, is the only undergraduate program of its kind in the U.S. The program prepares students in a variety of snow-related areas, including avalanche forecasting, water resource planning, snow-melt hydrology and snow engineering.
L&S is home to a number of centers that involve students and faculty in cutting-edge interdisciplinar y research and outreach programs, such as the Local Government Center, the Spectrum Lab, the Thermal Biology Institute, and the Wheeler Center for Public Policy.
Montana State University leads the country in the number of research projects in Yellowstone National Park. In recent years, MSU received nearly five times the number of National Science Foundation grants (39) for Yellowstone studies than its nearest competition, the University of Utah and the University of Oregon.
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