New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology: Statistics

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology logo
EduRank.org best universities badge
Position Category
#1170 of 14,131 In the World
#347 of 2,597 In North America
#312 of 2,496 In the United States
#3 of 12 In New Mexico
#27 of 1,098 For Petroleum Engineering
Top50% For 27 other topics
Subject rankings

Quick Review

Acceptance rate
97%
Average SAT
1215
Average ACT
26
Aid receiving
97%
Undergraduates
1,244
Graduates
490
Male:Female Ratio
65:35
Control
Public
Highest Degree
Doctor's degree
Website
nmt.edu

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Acceptance rate and admissions statistics

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has an acceptance rate of 97% and is among the 26% of the easiest universities to gain admission to in the United States. The university reports the admission statistics without distinguishing between local and international students.

Total Men Women
Acceptance Rate 97% 97% 96%
Applicants 1,006 600 406
Admissions 973 583 390
Freshmen enrolled full time 296 206 90
Freshmen enrolled part time 5 2 3

519 students enrolled in some distance education courses.

142 enrolled exclusively in distance education.

SAT scores

Among admitted applicants
127 or 43%
submitted SAT

25% of them
had 1110
or below

75% of them
had 1320
or below

Typical SAT scores of first-years in New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology are 1110-1320 (middle 50% range).

ACT scores

Among admitted applicants
137 or 46%
submitted ACT

25% of them
had 23
or below

75% of them
had 29
or below

Typical ACT scores of first-years in New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology are 23-29 (middle 50% range).

Admissions requirements

SAT/ACT Required
Secondary school GPA Required
Secondary school record Required
TOEFL Required
College-preparatory program Recommended
Recommendations Recommended
Secondary school rank Recommended
Formal demonstration of competencies Neither required nor recommended
Other Tests Neither required nor recommended

Enrollment demographics by race or ethnicity

White 837 (49%)
Hispanic 595 (35%)
Asian 74 (4%)
Nonresident Alien 73 (4%)
Two or more races 51 (3%)
American Indian or Alaska Native 34 (2%)
Black or African American 28 (2%)
Race or Ethnicity unknown 17 (1%)
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 3 (0.2%)

Costs per year: Tuition, Housing, Fees

The final cost of attendance varies for each student based on household income, residency, program, and other factors.

Average aid awarded
$8,378
Students receiving aid
97%

Tuition and fees

UndergraduatesGraduates
Tuition in-district $7,031$7,344
Tuition in-state $7,031$7,344
Tuition out-of-state $22,860$24,292
Fee in-district $1,394$1,373
Fee in-state $1,394$1,373
Fee out-of-state $1,394$1,373

Room and board costs

Dormitory capacity 807
Combined charge for room and board $8,518

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology majors

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has granted 225 bachelor's degrees across 21 programs, 97 master's across 16 programs, and 16 doctorate degrees across 11 programs. Below is a table with majors that lead to degrees at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

Major Associate Bachelor Master Doctoral
Mechanical Engineering 47 16 2
Computer Science 23 10 1
Electrical and Electronics Engineering 29
Petroleum Engineering 15 7 2
Biology & Biological Sciences, General 15 5
Chemical Engineering 19
Materials Engineering 5 12 2
Physics, General 11 3 2
Mathematics, General 9 3
Mining and Mineral Engineering 3 9
Environmental & Environmental Health Engineering 9 2
Science Teacher Education & General Science Teacher Education 11
Engineering & Industrial Management 4 6
Civil Engineering, General 9
Biomedical Sciences, General 7
Geology & Earth Science, General 6 1
Hydrology and Water Resources Science 4 2
Chemistry, General 3 1 1
Physical Sciences, General 5
General Studies 4
Information Technology 3
Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing 2
Psychology, General 2
Applied Mathematics, General 1
Biotechnology 1
Business Administration and Management, General 1
Environmental Science 1
Geobiology 1
Geochemistry 1
Geophysics and Seismology 1
Grand Total 1 225 97 16

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has a graduation rate of 55%, which is among the 50% highest for universities in the US.

Total Men Women
Graduation rate 55% 51% 68%
  • Full-time retention rate - 76%
  • Part-time retention rate - 40%

Publications & Citations

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has published 5,779 scientific papers with 217,307 citations received. The research profile covers a range of fields, including Environmental Science, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Materials Science, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Earth science and Geophysics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, and Computer Science.

Publications
5,779
Citations
217,307

Publication / Citation count by topic

Environmental Science
2,204 / 107,960
Engineering
1,895 / 47,728
Physics
1,717 / 57,195
Chemistry
1,606 / 63,108
Geology
1,404 / 74,189
Materials Science
845 / 19,083
Astrophysics and Astronomy
578 / 34,182
Earth science and Geophysics
506 / 30,001
Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
498 / 24,360
Computer Science
447 / 11,484
Petrology and Geochemistry
433 / 27,285
Biology
416 / 17,097
Optical Engineering
191 / 2,355
Hydrology and Water resources management
182 / 7,964
Remote Sensing
173 / 6,358
Mathematics
171 / 4,908
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
170 / 4,075
Metallurgical Engineering
170 / 4,453
Chemical Engineering
166 / 6,761
Paleontology
165 / 9,785
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
156 / 7,623
Petroleum Engineering
140 / 6,368
Geotechnical Engineering
137 / 4,343
Inorganic Chemistry
112 / 6,973
Business
101 / 3,288
Medicine
87 / 1,712
Geography and Cartography
83 / 740
Environmental Management
83 / 3,767
Environmental Chemistry
79 / 3,102
Cyber Security
79 / 1,561
Economics
67 / 3,130
Oceanography
63 / 4,027
Organic Chemistry
61 / 2,813
Machine Learning
56 / 2,237
Ecology
54 / 3,603
Art & Design
52 / 343
Blockchain and Cryptography
51 / 798
Demography
48 / 2,230
Nanotechnology
46 / 1,266
Aerospace Engineering
45 / 406

Annual publication & citation counts

Year Publications Citations
1991 70 867
1992 93 976
1993 96 1004
1994 83 1039
1995 71 1163
1996 101 1304
1997 113 1491
1998 97 1686
1999 131 2049
2000 123 2200
2001 136 2684
2002 149 2947
2003 165 3708
2004 204 4268
2005 218 4975
2006 230 6250
2007 234 6926
2008 283 8300
2009 287 9819
2010 242 10788
2011 251 11985
2012 234 13480
2013 255 15097
2014 275 15122
2015 251 15657
2016 250 16234
2017 278 17318
2018 264 15981
2019 266 17680
2020 306 19117
2021 305 19832
Academic rankings

Notable alumni

  1. Conrad Hilton

    Conrad Hilton
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1887-1979 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    socialiteentrepreneurpolitician
    Biography

    Conrad Nicholson Hilton Sr. was an American businessman who founded the Hilton Hotels chain. From 1912 to 1916 Hilton was a Republican representative in the first New Mexico Legislature, but became disillusioned with the "inside deals" of politics. He purchased his first hotel in 1919 for $40,000, the Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, which capitalized on the oil boom. The rooms were rented out in 8 hour shifts. He continued to buy and sell hotels and eventually established the world's first international hotel chain. When he died in 1979, he left the bulk of his estate to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

  2. Valerie Aurora

    Valerie Aurora
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1978-.. (age 45)
    Occupations
    engineerwomen's rights activistcomputer scientist
    Biography

    Valerie Anita Aurora is a software engineer and feminist activist. She was the co-founder of the Ada Initiative, a non-profit organization that sought to increase women's participation in the free culture movement, open source technology, and open source culture. Aurora is also known within the Linux community for advocating new developments in filesystems in Linux, including ChunkFS and the Union file system. Her birth name was Val Henson, but she changed it shortly before 2009, choosing her middle name after the computer scientist Anita Borg. In 2012, Aurora, and Ada Initiative co-founder Mary Gardiner were named two of the most influential people in computer security by SC Magazine. In 2013, she won the O'Reilly Open Source Award.

  3. Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr Alolom

    Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr Alolom
    Born in
    Iraq Flag Iraq
    Years
    1954-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    politicianinternational forum participant
    Biography

    Sayyid Dr. Muhammad-Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloom is an Iraqi politician, academician, and petroleum expert. He has served twice as the Iraqi Minister of Oil. He first took the ministerial role as part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 until June 2004. Bahraluloom went on to serve a second term as the minister in 2005 where he then submitted his resignation in protest against a governmental decision to increase the price of oil products by five folds.

  4. Terry Wallace

    Terry Wallace
    Years
    1956-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    geophysicist
    Biography

    Terry C. Wallace Jr. is an American geophysicist. He was the 11th director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the president of Los Alamos National Security, LLC. He became director on January 1, 2018, succeeding Charles F. McMillan.

  5. Pauline Irène Nguene

    Pauline Irène Nguene
    Born in
    Cameroon Flag Cameroon
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Pauline Irene Nguene is a Cameroonian-born Petroleum Engineer. She is currently the Cameroon Minister of Social Affairs.

  6. Dave Thomas

    Dave Thomas
    Years
    1953-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    physicistmathematician
    Biography

    David E. Thomas is a scientist and software engineer best known for his scientific skepticism research and writings. He is a graduate of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and his skeptic work covers the Roswell and Aztec UFO sightings, the Bible code, global warming, the 9/11 Truth movement and chemtrails. Thomas is frequently published in Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

  7. Irene E. Ryan

    Irene E. Ryan
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1909-1997 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    geologistpolitician
    Biography

    Irene Esther Ryan was an American geologist, aviator, and legislator during Alaska's history as both a United States territory and as a U.S. state. She was a member of the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives and of the Alaska State Senate. She was instrumental in the creation of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which helped insure state revenue from oil and gas exploration done by outside entities.

  8. Elmore Morgenthaler

    Elmore Morgenthaler
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1922-1997 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    basketball player
    Biography

    Elmore Robert Morgenthaler was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Providence Steamrollers and the Philadelphia Warriors in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), among other franchises and leagues. Standing at 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m), Morgenthaler is officially recognized as the first seven-foot player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

  9. Larry Soderblom

    Larry Soderblom
    Years
    1944-.. (age 79)
    Enrolled in New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    1962-1966 graduated with Bachelor of Science
    Occupations
    geophysicist
    Biography

    Laurence A. Soderblom is a geophysicist with the Astrogeology Science center at the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona where he has served as Chief of the Branch of Astrogeology. Soderblom is best known for his work in imaging science.

General info

Alternative names NMT
New Mexico Tech
New Mexico School of Mines
Founded 1889
Colors silver, gold
Academic calendar August to May. Also Summer Session (June - August)
Total FTE staff 773
Carnegie classification Master's Colleges & Universities: Small Programs

Location and contacts

Address 801 Leroy Place
Socorro, New Mexico, 87801
United States
City population 9,000
Phone 8004288324

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in social media