Northern New Mexico College — The places we call home

Northern New Mexico College — The places we call home

Northern New Mexico College is home to two campus, located in one of the most unique, vibrant, and beautiful regions of the U.S, known for its great cultural diversity and stunning high-desert New Mexican landscapes and ecologies.

Our main campus today is located in Española, NM, next to the Rio Grande in the heart of Pueblo country and one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the US. The “beautiful Española Valley” is a short drive north from the state Capitol in Santa Fe, NM, with sweeping vistas of the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains to the East and West. Our legacy campus in El Rito, NM, where our history began over a century ago, is set in an historic park within the Carson National Forest.

The area is a central hub to extraordinary historical sites and traditional culture and arts, to recreational destinations for hiking, fishing, and skiing, to world-class museums, galleries, restaurants and performing arts, and two major national laboratories.

Northern primarily serves rural communities and mountain villages from within a 40-mile radius of its main campus in Española, NM, including eight Native American Pueblos, in one of the most underserved areas in the state.

The College is dedicated to providing our approximately 1,200 students with the most relevant and sought-after skills to enable them to prosper in the modern job market. Northern also offers extraordinary undergraduate student research opportunities in STEM and human sciences. In building its brand Northern has focused on the trades of tomorrow, including fast business certificates in Project Management and Microsoft Office Suite, and programs in Cybersecurity, Film and Digital Media Arts and Certified Nurse Aide. Cutting-edge programs include a Radiation Protection program in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Northern is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and has earned additional industry-specific accreditations for its engineering, nursing, education, and business programs.

Graduates of Northern have gone on to pursue rewarding futures, including advanced degrees; careers in both federal and state service; employment at NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and as educators at all levels throughout the state and beyond.

Alumni leave Northern with a world of opportunities ahead of them; however, many graduates choose to remain in their communities to serve and uplift them.