Admissions & selectivity
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology?
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology’s reported acceptance rate is 44.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 44.5%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology admits 44.5% of applicants, well below the median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology students report?
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology enrolls students whose submitted test scores span a wide range. For the SAT, the middle half of enrolled submitters scored between 1,080 and 1,310.
On the ACT, the corresponding range is 20 to 29. These figures are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled students who provided scores, not every enrolled student and not a minimum for admission.
They offer a benchmark: an applicant whose own results sit inside these bands is in the company of the middle portion of the class that enrolled. A student can use the university's own 1,080–1,310 SAT window and 20–29 ACT window as one point of reference, remembering that the ranges describe submitters who ultimately chose to attend.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1080
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1310
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 29.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 11.9%
- First-year retention
- 77.0%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is a public university in Socorro, New Mexico, with an undergraduate enrollment of 995. The student body includes 29.5% who receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 11.9% who enter as transfers or part-time students.
The university admits 44.5% of applicants. For context, the median admission rate at comparable institutions (same type and size) is 83.4%.
Applicants who are Pell-eligible should use the cost calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted price.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 57.0%, and first-year retention stands at 77.0%. Both sit above the medians for comparable institutions, which are 43.5% and 73.4%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 43.1%, a gap of 13.9 percentage points below the overall rate. The gap is a fact about outcomes, not a verdict on the institution.
Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion that run ahead of the peer medians, though the Pell completion gap means the experience is not uniform.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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