List of college athletic programs in Montana

This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Montana.

Notes:

• This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
  • Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
  • Full name of school.
  • Location of school.
  • Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
• Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
  • Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school, such as the College of Charleston.
  • Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
  • The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.

NCAA

Division I

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Foot- ball	Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Soccer
					M	W			M	W
Montana Grizzlies ^[a]	University of Montana	Missoula	Big Sky	FCS
Montana State Bobcats	Montana State University	Bozeman	Big Sky	FCS

1. The women's basketball team is known as the "Lady Griz," but all other women's teams use the "Grizzlies" nickname.

Division II

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Soccer
				M	W			M	W
Montana State Billings Yellowjackets	Montana State University Billings	Billings	Great Northwest

NAIA

Team	School	City	Conference	Sport sponsorship
				Foot- ball	Basketball		Base- ball	Soft- ball	Soccer
					M	W			M	W
Carroll Fighting Saints	Carroll College	Helena	Frontier					^[a]	^[a]	^[a]
Providence Argonauts	University of Providence	Great Falls	Frontier					^[a]	^[a]	^[a]
Montana Western Bulldogs	University of Montana Western	Dillon	Frontier
MSU–Northern Lights	Montana State University–Northern	Havre	Frontier
Montana Tech Orediggers	Montana Technological University	Butte	Frontier
Rocky Mountain Battlin' Bears	Rocky Mountain College	Billings	Frontier						^[a]	^[a]

1. All Frontier Conference schools that sponsor softball or soccer compete in the Cascade Collegiate Conference for those sports.

NJCAA

Team	School	City	Conference
Dawson Buccaneers	Dawson Community College	Glendive	Mon-Dak
Little Big Horn Rams	Little Big Horn College	Crow Agency	Independent
Miles Pioneers	Miles Community College	Miles City	Independent

See also

• List of NCAA Division I institutions
• List of NCAA Division II institutions
• List of NCAA Division III institutions
• List of NAIA institutions
• List of USCAA institutions
• List of NCCAA institutions