The University Of Montana Western

710 South Atlantic, Dillon, MT 59725-3598 -  View Map

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• The University of Montana Western welcomes you to a community of students, educators, and scholars. The community of Montana Western values honesty, integrity, civility, leadership, courage, and personal responsibility. We nurture scholarship, creativity, lifelong learning, and high standards. We create opportunities for our students to do internships and public service in their academic programs. As part of the global community, Montana Western encourages diversity, international awareness, environmental responsibility and mastery of technology as a gateway to the world. Montana Western is a small public institution with baccalaureate degrees in elementary and secondary education as well as liberal arts degrees with a variety of interdisciplinary emphases. The campus is located in the town of Dillon in the scenic Beaverhead Valley of southwestern Montana. The University of Montana Western offers you the opportunity to advance your education while enjoying all of the extras a small campus in the middle of paradise has to offer. The campus of The University of Montana Western consists of approximately thirty-nine (39) acres, of which thirty (30) acres lie in one block. The unattached nine (9) acres is represented mostly by the athletic field which is approximately seven city blocks from the main campus.
• Profile last updated: 01/16/2009.

In the News:

• History, political professors respond to death of bin Laden (The Montana Standard)
  posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:32:37 am
  Sean Eudaily, an associate professor of political science at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, said a number of students stopped by his office Monday morning.
• Buckmaster signs letter of intent to play for Montana Western (Lahontan Valley News)
  posted on April 25, 2011 at 10:20:33 am
  Fallon's Hayden Buckmaster (69) signed a letter of intent to play football at the University of Montana Western next year. Hayden Buckmaster is keeping his college choice in the family.
• Western equestrians going to National Western Finals (The Montana Standard)
  posted on April 18, 2011 at 06:17:09 am
  DILLON — Three members of the University of Montana Western equestrian team competed at the National Western semifinals in Findlay, Ohio, March 26-27.
• Local athletes to play football at University of Montana Wetsern (Argus Observer)
  posted on April 13, 2011 at 06:06:15 pm
  Special to the Argus Observer DILLON, Mont. — The University of Montana Western announced its first string of new recruits, tapping 28 up-and-coming players from Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
• University of Montana Western names student to dean's list (The Times Herald)
  posted on March 15, 2011 at 12:51:18 pm
  DILLON, MONT. readMedia)-- Jillian Archibald, a resident of Blue Bell, made the dean's list for the fall 2010 semester at the University of Montana Western.

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