<p>I know it's super cheap at NMT, and that it's easy to get recs and internships. What else can you tell me about it?</p>
<p>76% guys, 24% girls.</p>
<p>Socorro is a very small town and it’s pretty much in the middle of nowhere. It’s 1 1/2 hours to Albuquerque, and about 4 hours to El Paso, assuming you have a car since there is either no or very limited bus service.</p>
<p>But there are lots of outdoors activities nearby (world class rock climbing and some excellent golfing–Nancy Lopez grew up in Socorro). The VLA (Very Large Array) is about 45 minutes west of town.</p>
<p>And you’d better like deserts…</p>
<p>BTW, the state of NM is facing a huge budget crisis. Tuition (in and out of state) at all NM schools is going up for 2011-12. Tech is still likely to be a bargain, but it’s also possible that some (all?) of its state-sponsored merit scholarships for OOSers will be disappearing. (Things will be clearer after the Jan session of the legislature and the new Republican governor takes office.)</p>
<p>NMT tuition:
[Tuition</a> and Fees](<a href=“http://www.nmt.edu/tuition-and-fees]Tuition”>http://www.nmt.edu/tuition-and-fees)</p>
<p>They still have OOS tuition waivers (OOS tuition is 26k):
[Scholarships</a> & Tuition Reduction Programs for Non-Residents](<a href=“http://www.nmt.edu/scholarships/183-scholarships-a-tuition-reduction-programs-for-non-residents]Scholarships”>http://www.nmt.edu/scholarships/183-scholarships-a-tuition-reduction-programs-for-non-residents)</p>
<p>And they have some automatic scholarships as well:
[url=<a href=“http://www.nmt.edu/scholarships]Scholarships[/url”>http://www.nmt.edu/scholarships]Scholarships[/url</a>]</p>
<p>So if I get an OOS tuition waiver and the 4k per year, that’s having to pay roughly 13k per year (w/o the FAFSA)</p>
<p>How is petroleum engineering here, and how is the school itself? How are employment rates? How is it’s reputation? </p>
<p>What do students do in their free time?</p>
<p>Bump . . .</p>
<p>Yes, I know all about NMT tuition—but what I’m saying is that school financing for the 2011-12 academic year will be determined by the state legislature–which won’t hold session until January 2011. It is possible, given what our governor-elect has been saying in the papers and TV, that OOS state-funded merit scholarships may be cut so the state is better able to fund the Lottery Scholarship program for state residents. </p>
<p>Most of the scholarships you’ve linked to are for state residents ONLY. (Gold, Silver, Presidential, etc).</p>
<p>The OOS scholarships/tuition waivers are competitively awarded and are not guaranteed. </p>
<p>I don’t know anything about the petroleum engineering program specifically. I can tell you that the physics, geology, and EE depts are all highly regarded and that their graduates do well in graduate school admissions.</p>
<p>As far an employment–I don’t have data, only ancedotal reports from friends of my kids who attended NMT. The comp sci, EE and geology kids have done quite well employment wise, but they have all gone to work for local businesses, the national labs (White Sands or Sandia), or local branches of the federal government. </p>
<p>The school itself is small and laidback. Excellent mentoring opportunities and lots of opportunities for strong, motivated students to do research. The social sciences and humanities depts are considered weak by most students and have limited offerings. The dorms are older and most students will move off campus when they finish their freshman year. Because the college is in a small town, it tries hard to make its facilities available to the townspeople. It’s not uncommon to see local middle and high school students using the college library or the photography darkrooms at the student union. </p>
<p>What do students do for entertainment? They play golf, they rock climb/spelunk, they go hiking/camping, they ski during the winter (if they have a car), lots of computer gaming, lots of drinking. The majority of students are from ABQ/Santa Fe/Los Alamos and many go home for the weekend. (I’d say kids come home about one weekend a month…)</p>
<p>^ Thank you for your time and effort… I sure hope they don’t cut back too much. I’m really discouraged by all the cutbacks colleges keep making this year for incoming freshmen. And there are only a handful of colleges that even offer ABET-accredited petE.</p>
<p>I’m applying to NMT along with a few other universities for Fall 2011 as a transfer student. I’ve found certain positives at each school. At NMT, the small size of the school and petE department is a plus for me coming from a community college perspective. I enjoy that my professors know me by my first name and have a genuine interest in seeing me succeed on a daily basis. I think the small size at NMT will also foster this experience. Another thing that I’ve noticed about NMT is that most of their faculty for petE is from the US while at some other universities, the faculty is heavily foreign.</p>
<p>I talked to their petE department…
Apparently their average starting salary is ~90k and their job placement rate is 96%+.</p>