New Mexico Highlands University Student Population

How many students at New Mexico Highlands? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 2,704 students have enrolled in New Mexico Highlands University with 1,603 undergraduate and 1,101 graduate students.

By gender, 856 male and 1,848 female students are attending the school.

It has much fewer students compared to similar colleges (10,123 students on average - public Master's College and University (larger programs)).

1,399 students are enrolled exclusively, and 923 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

Student Population by Gender

New Mexico Highlands University has a total of 2,704 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 1,603 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 1,101 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 856 male and 1,848 female students (the male-female ratio is 32:68) are attending the school.

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Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 519 White, 105 Black, and 20 Asian students out of a total of 2,704 are attending at New Mexico Highlands University. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

New Mexico Highlands University is moderately diverse with a diversity index of 64.8% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Student Age Distribution

By age, New Mexico Highlands has 80 students under 18 years old and 70 students over 65 years old. There are 977 students under 25 years old, and 1,727 students over 25 years old out of 2,704 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 79 students are younger than 18 and 30 students are older than 65. New Mexico Highlands has 880 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 723 students aged 25 and over.

In graduate schools at New Mexico Highlands, 1 students are younger than 18 and 40 students are older than 65. It has 97 graduate students aged under 25 and 1,004 students aged 25 and over.

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• Undergraduate
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Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At New Mexico Highlands University, 1,399 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 923 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,303 students who live in New Mexico or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 96 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

• Online Population
• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 1,603 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 219 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 13.66%.125 students have transferred in as full-time status and 94 students transferred in as part-time status.