Tightest New Mexico Public Colleges To Get In

The average acceptance rate of the 4 public New Mexico colleges that have competitive admission is 80.08% for the academic year 2024-2025. Compared to last year, the acceptance rate is higher by 10.06%. The acceptance rate at 2 public New Mexico colleges increased and the rate of 2 colleges decreased.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has the lowest (i.e. hard to admit) acceptance rate of 44.49%. New Mexico State University-Main Campus (88.97%) and Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus (91.66%) are following it in the list of Tightest New Mexico Public Colleges to Get In.

This ranking is only based on acceptance rates and more admission stats such as SAT and ACT scores are helpful to measure the chances to get in more accurately.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology stays at first place of the lowest acceptance rate ranking since last year. New Mexico State University-Main Campus ranked 2nd, up 1 place from 3rd last year.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $23,667 and graduate tuition & fees is $21,124 for the academic year 2024-2025.

We note that the actual tightness of admission lies in considering other admission requirements such as SAT score.

Table. Tightest New Mexico Public Colleges To Get In Comparison
	School Name	Acceptance Rate	Yield	SAT Score	Undergraduate Tuition & Fees	Total Population	Graduation Rate	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 -	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NMPublic, 4-year	44.49% 9.47%	27.07%	1,205	$27,247 ($9,476)	1,622	57.00%	9 to 1
2 1	New Mexico State University-Main Campus Las Cruces, NMPublic, 4-year	88.97% 13.24%	20.64%	1,000	$25,307 ($8,183)	15,408	55.00%	16 to 1
3 1	Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus Portales, NMPublic, 4-year	91.66% 36.74%	36.96%	940	$9,054 ($7,074)	5,725	45.00%	18 to 1
4 -	University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque, NMPublic, 4-year	95.18% 0.27%	31.19%	1,020	$33,060 ($10,140)	23,124	55.00%	15 to 1
	Average	80.08%	28.97%	1,041	$23,667 ($8,718)	11,470	53.00%	15 to 1

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