The El Paso region is home to nine post-secondary institutions, including two
four-year and graduate post-secondary institutions - The University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico State University - and seven two-year community
colleges, professional, and technical schools. The region's four-year
institutions enroll nearly 38,000 students annually, while the two-year
institutions enroll an annual total of approximately 35,598.
The University of Texas at El
Paso (UTEP)
With approximately 20,500 students enrolled, UTEP offers 76 Baccalaureate, 83
Masters, and 16 Doctoral programs within its academic colleges: Business, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Liberal Arts, Science, School of Nursing, and University College . UTEP's aggressive facilities construction program will accomodate its continued growth and provide faculty and students some of the most technologically advanced classrooms and laboratories in the nation. Hispanic Business Magazine consistently ranks UTEP's College of Engineering among the top 5 schools in the continental U.S. in awarding bachelor degrees to Hispanics and recently named UTEP's College of Engineering the number 1 graduate engineering school for Hispanics in the country. Hispanic Business Magazine also ranked UTEP's MBA program as 2nd among the Top 10 business graduate programs for Hispanics in the nation.
Texas Tech University
Health Sciences Center at El Paso (TTUHSC)
TTUHSC is an independently
accredited, comprehensive, health sciences university with component schools of
Allied Health, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, and
Pharmacy. TTUHSC provides all of West Texas with high quality accessible
healthcare services and access to educational opportunities. With support from
the Texas legislature, TTUHSC seeks to develop an independent, LCME accredited,
four-year medical school in El Paso, Texas. This will be an expansion from the
existing regional campus in El Paso that has 13 clinical departments and 8
independently accredited residency programs. Admission of the charter class of
students is anticipated for fall of 2008 or 2009.
New Mexico State University (NMSU)
Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, NMSU has an
annual enrollment of approximately 17,200 students. NMSU offers a wide variety of programs through its academic colleges: Agriculture & Home Economics, Arts & Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Extended
Learning, Health & Social Services, Honors, and the Graduate School . NMSU offers 81 Baccalaureate, 56 Masters, and 24 Doctoral degree programs, and is
the only university in New Mexico that offers an Honors College; aerospace, industrial and surveying engineering programs. In the annual Forbes.com list of America's Best Colleges for 2009, NMSU placed in the top third of the 600 universities ranked across the country. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education rated NMSU among the nation's top 30 universities for Hispanic and Native American students.
Updated: Jan. 2010.