New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 801 Leroy Place Socorro, NM 87801 (505) 835-5424

University Control:	Public
Founded In:	1889
Average Costs:	In-state: $; Out-of-state: $

New Mexico Tech [officially, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology] was originally founded in 1889 as the New Mexico School of Mines. Over the years, our mission has expanded, and we are now an outstanding research university, specializing in areas of science, engineering, and related fields. Students come to Tech for its outstanding academic reputation, one-to-one mentoring relationship with professors, hands-on laboratory learning experiences, opportunities for on-campus employment in one of our many research facilities or with our research faculty, and beautiful Southwestern setting. New Mexico Tech is a world leader in many areas of research, including hydrology, astrophysics, atmospheric physics, geophysics, homeland security, information technology, geosciences, energetic materials engineering, and petroleum recovery. Recently, The Princeton Review ranked New Mexico Tech as the nation's #2 "best value" college in its "Top 10 Best Value Colleges" ranking list in the 2006 edition of its college guidebook, America's Best Value Colleges. New Mexico Tech also was listed as one of the nation's best institutions for an undergraduate education, according to the recently published 2006 edition of The Princeton Review Guide to the Best 361 Colleges. A new connection to a fiber-optic communications network is removing geographic isolation and bringing world-class information sharing to New Mexico Tech. The university will have a completed link to the National LambdaRail by June 2006, allowing for high-speed communications between the entities connected to it. Tech's link to LambdaRail will facilitate the transfer of high definition images from the Very Large Array to other institutions around the nation and world, allow the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology-Program for the Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere to receive and access data much more efficiently in its role as a back-up information repository, and greatly increase the sharing of data with other research universities. LambdaRail will help Tech win more research grants because of the removal of isolation, with the university having the same communications as an institution in downtown Chicago. Students will also experience a faster Internet, with network speed expected to more than double by the fall semester.