CAS logo

Divisions, Departments, and Degree Programs .:

Additional Programs .:

Projects, Centers and Institutes.:

Contact: Dean Chris Comer
LA 136, Missoula, MT 59812
Telephone: 243-2632
Fax: 406-243-4076

Worldly Opportunity

Saudi students start academic journey at UM

Wrapped in a colorful scarf and an arctic-worthy jacket, Ali Alhashim said he’s ready to embrace Montana.

“I’m excited to be among mountains and snow,” Alhashim said while touring The University of Montana last week.

The 19-year-old pre-pharmacy student from Saudi Arabia is one of 5,000 of his countrymen who have been given a free education in the western world, and he is one of 41 students ready to begin an academic journey at UM.

In a diplomatic move of largess, the oil-rich Saudi Arabia government ruled by King Abdullah and his family is spending $4.9 billion on a scholarship Read More...

Global Education

When the College of Arts and Sciences adopted the motto "Connecting the West with the World," we hoped students would take it both figuratively and literally-especially now that the University has study abroad and exchange opportunities on every continent except Antarctica.

One of the College's great strengths is its ability to provide a global education, in both the figurative and literal sense: students must study a wide array of subjects in addition to their major, and come to understand how their specialty fits into the universe of disciplines. And they literally have access to a myriad of cultures, histories, languages, and bodies of knowledge-and now have great opportunities to experience those firsthand through study abroad.

UM's study abroad program has grown exponentially since its inception in 1972, when the University started offering students the opportunity to spend a term studying and living abroad as participants in one of several programs created and administered by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (formerly the Department of Foreign Languages).