EverettGriz said:
But it's not chartered as "THE" University of Montana. That's not the university's name.
Yes, if it leads a sentence, the "The" will be capped. But it's not UM's name, although I regularly call it that.
But frankly, if you need to distinguish yourself by putting a capital "t" in front of your university name, you've probably just got self-worth concerns.
Well, that's not what you said. But let's go with that.
The University was specifically chartered in 1893 as "
The University of Montana."
Section 1. There is hereby established in this State at the City of Missoula an institution of learning under the name and style of "The University of Montana."
https://www.umt.edu/research/ORSP/propdev/budgetinfo/Charter%20U%20of%20M.pdf
Since "The" University of Montana didn't actually even exist at that key point in time, I'm not sure what the "self-worth" concerns might have been, would have been, or could have been.