The government and control of the Montana University System is vested in a Board of Regents of Higher Education which shall have full power, responsibility, and authority to supervise, coordinate, manage, and control the Montana University System. The number of credit hours assigned to a course per term is generally based on the number of hours the course meets during a week. That portion of the current fund expended for general operations but restricted to purposes specified by the contributing fund sources external to the Board of Regents and the Legislature. That portion of the current fund expended for general operations and subject to restrictions imposed by the Legislature and the Board of Regents. That portion of the Plant Fund's financial resources that are available to retire long-term debts and interest cost associated with capital acquisitions and related expenditures.
Academic departments are discipline-oriented, and nonacademic departments provide specific services.
EMC - Eastern Montana College in Billings, established in 1927. The college became Montana State University-Billings in 1994. The number of students enrolled in an educational institution, program, course, etc. without regard to the number of credit hours being taken by individual students. LAB - A class period reserved for experimentation or observation. LOAN FUND - Moneys deposited in the state treasury which may be loaned to students, faculty or staff for purposes related to education , organized research or public services by the Montana University System.