The Frontier Conference is a college athletic conference, founded in 1952 and affiliated with the NAIA

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs. Membership in the NAIA consists of smaller colleges and universities across the United States. The NAIA allows colleges and universities outside the USA...

. Member institutions are located in the northwestern United States

United States

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, in the states of Idaho

Idaho

Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

, Montana

Montana

Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

, Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

 and Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

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Current members (and year joined, where known)

(^ denotes football-playing member)

• Carroll College
  Carroll College (Montana)
  Carroll College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in Helena, Montana, USA. Carroll College has earned national and regional awards for its academic programs. Carroll's colors are purple and gold...
  
  ^ Fighting Saints (1952)
• Eastern Oregon University
  Eastern Oregon University
  Eastern Oregon University is one of seven state-funded, four-year universities of higher education in the State of Oregon and belongs to the Oregon University System...
  
  ^ Mountaineers (2005) (football-only)
• Lewis–Clark State College Warriors
• Montana State University - Northern
  Montana State University - Northern
  Montana State University – Northern is a public state university, part of the Montana State University System, located in Havre, Montana. Montana State University – Northern was known as Northern Montana College prior to the restructuring of Montana's public university system...
  
  ^ Lights (1999 for football, 1952 for other sports)
• Montana Tech of The University of Montana
  Montana Tech of The University of Montana
  Montana Tech is a university located in Butte, Montana. It was founded in 1900, originally as Montana State School of Mines with two degrees, Mining Engineering and Electrical Engineering. The "M" on Big Butte overlooking the city stands for Miners and was built in 1910...
  
  ^ Orediggers (1952)
• Rocky Mountain College
  Rocky Mountain College
  Rocky Mountain College , located in Billings, Montana, is a private comprehensive college offering more than 25 liberal arts- and professionally oriented majors. In fall 2009, the college had 894 enrolled students...
  
  ^ Battlin' Bears (1952)
• University of Great Falls
  University of Great Falls
  The University of Great Falls , a private Roman Catholic university located in Great Falls, Montana, is fully accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges...
  
   Argonauts
• University of Montana Western
  University of Montana Western
  The University of Montana Western is a public university located in Dillon, Montana. It is part of the University of Montana System. Enrollment as of fall 2010 was 1,336 students. The school was founded in 1893 as Montana State Normal School...
  
  ^ Bulldogs (1952)
• Westminster College, Salt Lake City
  Westminster College, Salt Lake City
  Westminster College is a private liberal arts college located in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah. The college comprises four schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business, the School of Education, and the School of Nursing and Health...
  
   Griffins

Sports

The Frontier Conference sponsors athletic competition in men's and women's basketball

Basketball

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, men's football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, and women's volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

. Montana State University-Northern and University of Great Falls are participants in wrestling (both of which are national powers).