WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY L-3

PO Box 680
Silver City, NM 88062-0680
Tel: (505)538-6011; Admissions: (505)538-6106; Fax: (505)538-6155; Web Site: http://www.wnmu.edu/

Description: State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Awards associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. Founded 1893. Setting: 83-acre rural campus. Endowment: $2.2 million. Research spending 2002-03: $38,500. Total enrollment: 3,074. 8% from top 10% of their high school class, 21% from top quarter, 40% from top half. Students come from 33 states and territories, 6 other countries, 46% 25 or older. Retention: 52% of 2003 full-time freshmen returned. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, advanced placement, accelerated degree program, self-designed majors, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships, graduate courses open to undergrads.

Entrance Requirements: Open admission. Options: Common Application, early admission, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: high school transcript. Recommended: ACT. Placement: ACT COMPASS required. Entrance: noncompetitive. Application deadline: 8/1. Notification: continuous.

Costs Per Year: Application fee: $10. State resident tuition: $2371 full-time. Nonresident tuition: $8923 full-time. Mandatory fees: $80 full-time. College room and board: $4280. College room only: $1550.

Collegiate Environment: Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, marching band, student-run newspaper. Student services: personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, student patrols, late night transport-escort service. 425 college housing spaces available; 294 were occupied in 2002-03. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required in freshman year. Option: coed housing available. Miller Library plus 2 others with 245,146 books, 236 serials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending 2002-03: $707,000. 85 computers available on campus for general student use. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment: Once an Apache Indian campsite and later a booming gold, silver, and zinc mining town, Silver City is a trading center for the cattle ranching and copper-mining area today. The city, located in the foothills of the mountains, has various active civic, fraternal, and veteran's organizations, and is served by commuter airline. Recreational activities include football, hunting, fishing, camping, and picnicking.