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| Please submit only colleges and universities from Montana. An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field should be submitted to the appropriate university category. Two-year, junior, and community colleges should be submitted to Two-Year_Colleges. |
By definition, colleges are institutions of higher learning that grant the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both. Universities are institutions for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
Rocky Mountain College is a diverse community of learners working together to better understand who we are and how to live. Our responsibility is to educate ourselves and the ever-changing larger community, recognizing the importance of the liberal arts as the foundation of all learning for academic, professional, and life-long personal development.As a college founded in the Christian tradition, we seek to understand that tradition in an open and non-sectarian way, upholding the importance of one's own beliefs with respect for and fair consideration of others' beliefs. As a college in the Mountain West, we seek to understand the history and environment of our region as a bridge to understanding the history and environment of the larger world.
The university was founded in 1932 by Bishop Edwin V. O'Hara to fill the need for an institution of higher education in Great Falls and the central Montana area. Since 1935, the college has been accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges for the granting of, at first three, and then four-year diplomas and graduate degrees.The present campus opened in 1960. Providence Tower, the main campus landmark, was constructed in 1964, and the McLaughlin Memorial Center, a spacious physical education and recreation facility, was added in 1965.
The University of Great Falls pioneered long-distance learning in Montana and now covers more than 300,000 square miles, serving students throughout Montana, Canada and Wyoming.
The institution achieved university status on September 8, 1995 and the name was changed from College of Great Falls to the University of Great Falls.
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