The University of Montana and Missoula easily attract highly qualified faculty and researchers, as well as students from across the country and abroad – all of whom enjoy living, working, and learning amid the city’s picturesque mountains.
With about 14,000 students and 830 full-time and part-time faculty members, UM’s 19:1 student-faculty ratio makes it a friendly campus with plentiful research opportunities for undergraduates.
Students can also benefit from some of the university’s unique resources and research facilities:
- The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, whose stacks are home to over 1 million volumes
- The William J. Jameson Law Library
- UM’s off-campus facilities include the Biological Station for freshwater research at Yellow Bay on Flathead Lake
- The 28,000-acre Lubrecht Experimental Forest east of Missoula
- The Bandy Experimental Ranch near Ovando
- The Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch outside Dupuyer
- The Montana Island Lodge at Salmon Lake
- The PEAS Farm in the nearby Rattlesnake Valley offers opportunities to learn about sustainable agriculture through courses, field trips, and internships
