Rocky Mountain College

Rocky Mountain College (informally Rocky, or RMC), located in Billings, Montana, United States, is a private comprehensive college offering 50 liberal arts- and professionally oriented- majors in 24 undergraduate disciplines. In fall 2013, the college had 1069 enrolled students. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the United Church of Christ.

Rocky Mountain College traces its history to the 1878 founding of the Montana Collegiate Institute in Deer Lodge, Montana. Renamed the College of Montana, that institution closed in 1916, and in 1923 its assets were incorporated into Intermountain Union College, located in Helena. A former president of the College of Montana, Lewis Eaton, founded the Billings Polytechnic Institute (today's RMC campus) in 1908 as the first postsecondary institution in Billings. RMC remains on Poly Drive, which leads to campus from downtown Billings.

Rocky Mountain teams, nicknamed athletically as the Battlin' Bears, are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Division I level, primarily competing in the Frontier Conference. Men's sports include basketball, cross country, football, golf, ski racing, soccer and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cheerleading, cross country, golf, ski racing, soccer, track & field and volleyball.

In 2014, the Battlin' Bears men's basketball team won the Frontier Conference championship and three teammates were named to the NAIA All-America team. In 2009, the Battlin' Bears men's basketball team won the NAIA Division I National Championship, the school's first NAIA title.

The Battlin' Bears women's ski team, which competes in the USCSA (the United States Collegiate Ski Association), won a national championship in 2014. The men's ski team won RMC's first national sports championship in 2005, and took national championships again in 2007, 2011, and again in 2016.