Admissions & selectivity
New Mexico State University-Main Campus Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at New Mexico State University-Main Campus?
New Mexico State University-Main Campus’s reported acceptance rate is 89.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 89.0%
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 State University-Main Campus admitted 89.0% of applicants, an admission outcome that leaves room for many applicants to be considered. That rate is above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size), so its admission pattern sits above its peer midpoint.
What SAT and ACT scores do New Mexico State University-Main Campus students report?
The submitted-score profile at New Mexico State University-Main Campus spans a broad range, and these figures describe enrolled students who chose to submit scores rather than minimums for admission. Among SAT submitters, the middle half of scores ran from 870 to 1,110.
Among ACT submitters, the middle half ranged from 17 to 24. Applicants should place their SAT score against 870 and 1,110, or their ACT score against 17 and 24, when assessing how their academic record compares with recent enrollees. The ranges provide context for submitted scores, not a cutoff for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at New Mexico State University-Main Campus. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 870
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1110
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
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at New Mexico State University-Main Campus?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 38.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 23.7%
- First-year retention
- 73.4%
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.
Financial access and transfer pathways are both visible in the undergraduate makeup at New Mexico State University-Main Campus. Pell Grant recipients account for 38.5% of undergraduates, and the university has 11,946 undergraduates.
An estimated 23.7% share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group points to a campus that includes students arriving through more than one college route. This composition suggests that attendance includes both students receiving federal grant aid and students who began college elsewhere.
Completion at New Mexico State University-Main Campus trails the benchmark for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 55.2%, below the peer median of 65.0%.
First-year retention is 73.4%, also below the peer median of 83.1%. Pell recipients in the cohort have a six-year completion rate of 31.2%, below the overall rate by 24.0 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect a majority of the measured first-year cohort to return, but both schoolwide persistence measures sit below their peer medians.
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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