Concordia University Wisconsin NP students in Montana
In Concordia University Wisconsin's current disclosure, Montana passes all five graduate NP tables. The Montana Board of Nursing lets graduate programs hold clinicals in Montana without Board approval, attaching one condition: you hold an active license valid in Montana. The harder part is geography, with only small metros spread across a very large state.
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Montana's answers in CUW's disclosure
Every Montana entry in CUW's graduate NP tables reads "Meets Requirements", and CUW's RN to BSN table says the same.
| CUW program | Montana |
|---|---|
| MSN, Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (FNP, AGPCNP; dual degrees included) | Meets |
| DNP entered from the BSN | Meets |
| DNP entered from the MSN | Meets |
| Certificate After Graduate Education, FNP/AGPCNP | Meets |
| Certificate After Graduate Education, PMH NP | Meets |
| PMHNP MSN; PMHNP DNP | No table on the page |
Our licensure disclosure page walks through the programs CUW leaves unlisted.
Montana's two-track approval rule
Montana splits nursing programs into two groups, and CUW's NP programs land in the easier one. Schools elsewhere that teach students toward a first nursing license must obtain Board permission, from the Board itself or its executive director, before any of their students train in a Montana facility. ARM 24.159.608 spells out that filing, down to an assurance from Montana's own program directors that local students keep their clinical spots.
Post-licensure education is handled differently. In its FAQ, the Board lets programs for RNs finishing a BSN or earning a graduate degree run Montana clinicals without its approval. What remains for CUW is making sure you carry an active license Montana honors while you treat patients there, so for you the state-level question comes down to that license.
Your license and the compact
Montana joined the Nurse Licensure Compact on the day it launched, January 19, 2018. The Board's RN page adds that nurses from other compact states may work in Montana on their home state's multistate privilege, with no Montana license required. That covers a Montanan whose own license is multistate, and equally a nurse living in Idaho or Wyoming, both compact members. Someone licensed only by a non-compact state would apply to Montana first.
Montana has not enacted the APRN Compact. On CUW's end, the catalog expects a clean RN license for the length of the program but leaves the issuing state unnamed. Our RN license page covers that, and the Graduate Clinical Coordinator settles specific cases.
Preceptors across a big, thinly settled state
AANP rates Montana full practice, so seasoned Montana NPs run primary care panels on their own authority, and NP-owned clinics fit CUW's FNP and AGPCNP clinicals as long as they are primary care; see primary care sites. Billings, the largest metro, has fewer than 200,000 people. Bozeman and Missoula each hold about 129,000, and Helena is under 100,000.
Billings Clinic merged with Logan Health into a single system, and Benefis Health System is another large name. Two multistate systems operate here too: Providence, whose Missoula hospital is St. Patrick, and Intermountain Health, which runs St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings. All of them set their own student terms, and CUW's pages mention none of them.
Distance is the real constraint. CUW's 2022 FAQ sketched a 250-hour clinical as roughly thirty shifts of eight to ten hours, which means any long commute gets driven thirty times over. Our pacing guide shows how students fit the hours around work.
Why Montana students choose us
Our placement desk plans Montana searches around real drive time, whether you live near Billings, Bozeman, Missoula or Helena or in the long stretches between. We confirm that every preceptor holds a license valid in Montana and practices primary care, hand you a complete packet for your CUW proposal, warn you early when a site will likely need a fresh contract with CUW, and sequence all three clinical courses so no semester hangs on a single arrangement. If a preceptor pulls out, your placement advisor is already working the next option. Start through our contact page.
Questions CUW students ask
Can Montana nurses enroll in CUW's online NP programs?
For every program the disclosure covers, yes: Montana meets for the primary care NP master's and its dual-degree versions, for both doctoral paths and for both CAGE certificates. The psychiatric MSN and DNP go unlisted, so check those with admissions. Nothing on CUW's pages restricts enrollment by where you live.
Does my CUW clinical faculty member need a Montana license?
The Board's FAQ draws the line at hands-on care: out-of-state faculty who treat Montana patients themselves need a Montana license, while those who only talk things through with you and your preceptor do not. Back in 2022, CUW's FAQ spoke of a faculty visit to each student's site at least once a semester; ask your course faculty how visits run now.
Could I do clinical hours in North Dakota or South Dakota?
North Dakota is a compact state and meets in CUW's table for every NP program except the Post-MSN DNP. South Dakota sits on CUW's does-not-meet list for all NP tables, so keep your clinicals out of it unless the Graduate Clinical Coordinator says otherwise. Idaho and Wyoming both meet. See our North Dakota and Idaho guides.
Can a PMHNP certificate student do clinicals in Montana?
CUW's CAGE (PMH NP) table lists Montana as meeting. PMHNP certificate students keep an unencumbered NP prescribing license through CUW, the Montana Board wants a license valid in Montana while you treat Montana patients, and Montana has not enacted the APRN Compact. PMHNP preceptor qualifications are not posted anywhere by CUW, so graduate faculty are the source on who can supervise your psychiatric hours.
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Last checked 2026-09-26
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