Other State Colleges
New Mexico Highlands University
New Mexico Highlands University, based in Las Vegas, NM, is about an hour northeast of Santa Fe.
- Offers degree completion and graduate courses in both Santa Fe and Rio Rancho locations.
- Fields of study include arts & sciences, business, social work, engineering, and teacher education.
- NMHU Rio Rancho also offers criminal justice, public affairs administration, computer science, and general and school counseling.
- NMHU enrolls more than 3,100 students at all its branches combined.
- Tuition for the 2006-07 academic year is $2,424.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, familiarly called New Mexico Tech, is located in Socorro, about an hour's drive south of Albuquerque and 1/2 hour south of Belen. This state-supported university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in science, engineering and other technically-related fields.
- New Mexico Tech is renowned for its world-class research programs in hydrology, astrophysics, atmospheric physics, geophysics, homeland security, information technology, geosciences, energetic materials engineering, and petroleum recovery.
- New Mexico Tech ranked number 1 in the nation in industry-funded R&D by the State Science and Technology Institute
- New Mexico Tech’s labs are ranked one of the five coolest labs in the nation by Popular Science
- New Mexico Tech is rated as one of the 25 hottest schools by Newsweek and Kaplan’s College Guide 08’
- New Mexico Tech offers a highly personal education, unusual for an engineering school, with 1,455 students in Spring 2007.
- New Mexico Tech's science and engineering school was listed among the 15% of the 4-year colleges in the U.S. that made Princeton Review's Guide to the Best 361 colleges.
- U.S. News & World Report listed New Mexico Tech as one of America's Best third-tier Colleges for 2006.
- Tuition for the 2006-07 academic year is $3,996 .
