[2] Strapped for funding and suffering from a limited enrollment, the school had an erratic existence and finally closed for good in 1916.

Intermountain Union, in turn, later merged with the Billings Polytechnic Institute to form Rocky Mountain College.

Buildings from the former College of Montana campus still survive in Deer Lodge, including Trask Hall, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Probably the best-known person once associated with the College of Montana was the literary critic Irving Babbitt, who taught at the school for a time.

Augustus M. Ryon founded the college's School of Mines in 1888, and was named the first president of Montana State University in 1893.