Blue Mont Central College was a private, Methodist institute of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, United States.

[2] Blue Mont Central College ceased operations later that year after the school term was completed.

The co-founder of the Emigrant Aid Company, Eli Thayer, wrote that the towns established by the Company should emphasize education: "to go with all our free-labor trophies: churches and schools, printing presses, steam-engines, and mills; and in a peaceful contest convince every poor man from the South of the superiority of free labor.

[2] The conference approved the creation of the school and appointed Goodnow and his brother-in-law Joseph Denison agents for the college.

[1] The term "Central" was included in the name because the founders believed Manhattan was located very near the geographic center of the United States as it existed in 1858.

Nevertheless, Kansas State University has honored its legacy by naming a building on its present campus Bluemont Hall, by featuring an arch from the original Blue Mont Central College building over the central fireplace in the KSU Alumni Center, and by displaying the college's old bell on campus.