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New Mexico Military Institute ROTC and Campus Demographics

New Mexico Military Institute is a public school and a military college and a minority serving institution. New Mexico Military Institute has an Army host ROTC unit. During the 2011 through 2021 school years, New Mexico Military Institute had an average enrollment of 412.1 US resident students of whom an average of 143.7 enrolled in ROTC each year.

For more information on ROTC programs overall, visit our report landing page.

This figure shows the overall demographic makeup of this school, as well as students enrolled in ROTC at the school and ROTC participants from this school who became commissioned officers in one of the military services.

ROTC cadets at two year schools such as New Mexico Military Institute generally transfer to a four-year school to earn a commission, so there is no data available on commissions earned at New Mexico Military Institute.

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Sources: GAO analysis of Department of Defense and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data. | GAO-23-105857.

Notes:

  • We report average demographics for academic years 2011 through 2021.
  • Campus level data comes from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).
  • Our campus enrollment numbers include students considered U.S. residents. Non-citizens are generally ineligible to participate in ROTC.
  • ROTC data comes from the Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC programs.
  • The racial categories in the Department of Education IPEDS data are not identical to those in the military departments' ROTC demographic data. - Our ROTC enrollment count includes all students who participated in ROTC in every academic year between 2011 and 2021. Each enrollee is counted only once when they enter ROTC.

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For more information, read our report, GAO-23-105857.