(04-27-2021 05:53 PM)PojoaquePosse Wrote:  

(04-27-2021 05:45 PM)TexanFan Wrote:  UNM is about $12M higher budget than NMSU. Interesting. Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think the enrollment is much higher. What I googled only showed about 2,000 students more at UNM.

NuM is in a large metro area (1M vs 200k). NuM has double the undergrad student enrollment of NMSU (22,244 vs 11,675). ABQ is 45 minutes from Santa Fe. NMSU is over 4 hours away. The vast majority of NM legislators have degrees from NuM (all the lawyers do as NMSU does not have a school for lawyers). I could go on and on but you get the picture.

I wonder why the mighty Junior Aggies aren't shown under the AD budget article that was provided? Must be something to do with D2...

And while they aren't a rich school compared to many around the country, UNM does have a much larger endowment as well. NMSU really lags in that department compared to many universities like ours.