With expenses rising California college kids have another way to get great education – The University of Montana

Snowboarding, trout fishing and challenging academics — all for less money than the University of California?

Evan Feuerbach left Los Gatos to find just that at the University of Montana’s flagship campus in Missoula http://www.umt.edu/future.aspx . The 20-year-old Environmental Sciences major and about a dozen other Californians discovered an alternative to the Golden State’s rising cost of higher education in Big Sky country through a little-known program called the Western Undergraduate Exchange http://wue.wiche.edu/ .

By Lisa M. Krieger

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