University of Montevallo

Montevallo’s Legislatively mandated mission, unique in higher education in Alabama, is “to provide to students from throughout the state an affordable, geographically accessible ‘small college’ public higher educational experience of high quality, with a strong emphasis on undergraduate liberal studies and with professional programs supported by a broad base of arts and sciences, designed for the intellectual and personal growth in the pursuit of meaningful employment and responsible informed citizenship.”

To say that Montevallo is unique would be an understatement. As a member of the prestigious Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges and as one of only twenty-five public liberal arts universities in the United States, Montevallo has emerged as a national leader in liberal arts education and was recognized in the past five editions of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges as the highest ranked Tier One, public master’s level university in Alabama.