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New Mexico has 15 four-year degree-granting institutions active in the federal directory — 9 public, 3 private nonprofit, and 3 private for-profit.

The list below is every active, degree-granting institution IPEDS classifies at the four-year level. It is a directory, not a ranking. Two-year colleges, certificate-only schools, and institutions that have closed or stopped reporting are not here.

Four-year institutions

Institution City Control Notes
Brookline College-Albuquerque Albuquerque Private for-profit
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine Las Cruces Private for-profit Medical school
Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus Portales Public
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development Santa Fe Public Tribal college; Land-grant
Navajo Technical University Crownpoint Public Tribal college; Land-grant
New Mexico Highlands University Las Vegas Public
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro Public
New Mexico State University-Main Campus Las Cruces Public Land-grant
Northern New Mexico College Espanola Public
Southwest University of Naprapathic Medicine Santa Fe Private for-profit
Southwestern College Santa Fe Private nonprofit
St. John's College Santa Fe Private nonprofit
University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque Public Medical school
University of the Southwest Hobbs Private nonprofit
Western New Mexico University Silver City Public

Public university systems

System membership as recorded in the IPEDS directory. Counts are of four-year public members in this table only, so a system that also runs two-year campuses will show more members in its own materials.

System Four-year public members here
Eastern New Mexico University 1
New Mexico State University System 1
University of New Mexico 1

Sources

  • NCES IPEDS, Institutional Characteristics directory (HD2024) — the federal directory of postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV programs. Every institution, city, control, and system value above is read directly from that file. Retrieved 2026-08-11 from nces.ed.gov/ipeds.
  • Filters applied: currently active (CYACTIVE), degree-granting (DEGGRANT), and institutional level (ICLEVEL). Flags in the Notes column are the IPEDS HBCU, TRIBAL, LANDGRNT, and MEDICAL fields.

Institution names are IPEDS legal names and sometimes differ from the name a school markets under. Check the institution's own site before relying on any detail here.

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