Montana State University - Bozeman
| Montana State University - Bozeman | |
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| motto |
Mountains & Minds (mountains and intellect) |
| founding | 1893 |
| Sponsorship | Public University Land-grant University |
| place | Bozeman , United States |
| president | Waded cruzado |
| Students | 14,153 (as of 2011) |
| Foundation assets | US $ 86.7 million |
| Website | montana.edu |
The Montana State University - Bozeman (including MSU called) is a public University in Bozeman in south-western US state of Montana . With 12,250 students, the university is the second largest university in Montana after the University of Montana. It is the principal location of the Montana State University system . The MSU is the only university in the world to offer a master’s degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking .
history
Montana State University was founded in 1893 as the Agricultural College of the State of Montana . After renaming it again to the Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts , it was known as the Montana State College (MSC) in the 1920s . On July 1, 1965 , the university was finally given its current name.
Faculties
- College of Graduate Studies
- Engineering
- Art and architecture
- Education, Health and Human Development
- Nursing professions
- technology
- University College
- Sciences
- Agronomy
- Native American Research
- English studies
- biology
- Chemistry and biochemistry
- History and Philosophy
- earth sciences
- Living language and literary studies
- mathematics
- physics
- Political science
- psychology
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Economics
Sports
The MSU sports teams are known as bobcats . The university is part of the Big Sky Conference .
Famous Graduates
- Dennis Erickson - football coach
- Hein Hoop - German artist and author
- Christian Kracht (senior) - German media manager at Axel Springer Verlag
- Brian Schweitzer - Governor of Montana
- Jan Stenerud - American football player
See also
- KYPR , the university broadcaster
Trivia
The work Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (original title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) by the American author Robert M. Pirsig from 1974, which has sold millions of copies worldwide over decades , made the university and Bozeman known to a large readership. Pirsig's alter ego Phaedrus reflects, among other things, his memories as a teacher and researcher, whose philosophical findings are largely due to his teaching there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ US and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009 (PDF; 194 kB) In: 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments . National Association of College and University Business Officers. Archived from the original on December 14, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
- ↑ MSU department list ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
Coordinates: 45 ° 40 ′ 6 ″ N , 111 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W.