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RMC is a small, private college that is grounded in the liberal arts tradition focused on academic success.

Rocky Mountain College is a small, private college in Billings, Montana, built on a liberal arts foundation and focused on one thing: helping students become genuinely capable, not just credentialed.
 
We came together through the merger of three institutions, which means our roots run two directions at once, academic and applied. That history still shapes how we teach today. Rocky puts the liberal arts into action, pairing professional programs with a strong liberal arts core, traditional liberal arts majors, and graduate programs built around real education, not just training. We educate the whole person. We help students become more than they came in as. And we take our responsibility to the communities we serve seriously.
 
Rocky Mountain College holds a specific distinction: we’re the oldest institution of higher education in Montana. Some say we’re the state’s oldest continuous business, period. We won’t argue the point too hard, but we also won’t let it go unmentioned. In 2028, we celebrate 150 years. We’ve earned that number the slow way, one graduating class at a time.

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Worth the Investment

Most Rocky students receive some form of scholarship or grant. These awards are based on academic merit, talent, financial need, or a combination of factors. They do not need to be repaid.

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Strong Outcomes

98 percent of Rocky graduates are employed or in graduate school shortly after graduation, reflecting the strength of our academic programs and career preparation.

Personal Attention

One‑on‑one engagement with qualified faculty who know you by name and are invested in your goals, providing personalized guidance in and out of the classroom.

Manageable Borrowing

No one wants to borrow more than they have to. RMC works directly with you to explore the various options available. Rocky graduates leave college with one of the region’s lowest student loan debts and default rates, demonstrating the power of an RMC degree.

Rocky Mountain Magic

Shaped by the Yellowstone River and sheltered by the Rims, Billings is the cradle of progressive regional commerce, healthcare, transportation, education, cuisine, arts, and culture. We’re not just located near something interesting. We’re part of it.
Inspiring Student Life
Montana and the Northern Rockies are part of the education here, not a backdrop to it. Explore it alongside classmates and faculty from around the world.
Co-Curricular Activity
We take co-curricular life seriously because it teaches things a classroom can’t. Athletics, outdoor recreation, theatre, music, clubs, campus ministry, community service,  students who get involved learn to understand people different from themselves and to work alongside them. That’s not an extracurricular skill. It’s a life skill.

History and Tradition

From the very beginning in 1878, Rocky students have been leaders, not in the abstract, in the literal sense. In 1947, students petitioned to rename the college Rocky Mountain College. Before that and after, they took it upon themselves to accelerate the campus’s growth, quarrying sandstone from the Rimrocks just north of campus and building new structures with their own hands as a way to pay their tuition. Six of those original buildings are still in use today.
In 1944, the commons area in what’s now Prescott Hall served meals to more than 300 Italian and German prisoners of war housed on campus during World War II. The same building once held a cannery and granary where students milled flour and made Green and Gold Cereal, sold throughout Montana and Wyoming, to help cover their education.
 

A Rocky Mountain College education still reflects that history, liberal arts and professional programs, built side by side, the same way the campus itself was built.

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