University of New Mexico Reviews

"The Counselor Education Program at UNM is a great program if you are interested in becoming a licensed counselor. The professors are great and have experience that directly converts into great leadership. I feel like I am gaining great insight and knowledge into what the career entails as well as the skills needed to succeed as a counselor."

"It was a great, supportive program. All of the faculty were really invested in our future careers and success."

"Every professor demonstrates an energetic desire to teach the students in the class. The material is challenging, yet the class environment allows for helpful discussion and problem solving. However, some of the core classes are very redundant for a student who has received a bachelor's degree in business, accounting, finance, etc."

"Teachers were respectful and encouraged collaboration. They were also typically flexible and understanding. Most students worked full time in addition to school."

"UNM was a great school to attend for the quality of education I received, and now that I work there, I can say it's made leaps and bounds in terms of student services and support. The campus is beautiful, and I think the administration is really devoted to making sure students are served well."

"UNM is a good college. It tends to lean to the left politically, but has strong opportunities for conservative students as well. Anderson School of Business is nationally renowned. I had some great literature teachers at UNM with whom I am still in contact even though I graduated years ago."

"If I had not qualified for the lottery (and another scholarship) and been able to get a degree for free, I would never have even considered attending UNM. Even with the scholarships, I was hesitant. The biology program, the first two years in particular, is atrocious. It gets better in the upper levels, but you really have to be passionate about your major to keep going through it. I graduated magna cum laude and am getting right out of town, moving out of state for grad school. I actually avoid telling people where I got my degree from if I can help it."

"It was nice. Advisers were not helpful, classes ranged from small to very large. I enjoyed my experience."

"UNM was a great school to attend for the quality of education I received, and now that I work there, I can say it's made leaps and bounds in terms of student services and support. The campus is beautiful, and I think the administration is really devoted to making sure students are served well."

"UNM is a good college. It tends to lean to the left politically, but has strong opportunities for conservative students as well. Anderson School of Business is nationally renowned. I had some great literature teachers at UNM with whom I am still in contact even though I graduated years ago."

"If I had not qualified for the lottery (and another scholarship) and been able to get a degree for free, I would never have even considered attending UNM. Even with the scholarships, I was hesitant. The biology program, the first two years in particular, is atrocious. It gets better in the upper levels, but you really have to be passionate about your major to keep going through it. I graduated magna cum laude and am getting right out of town, moving out of state for grad school. I actually avoid telling people where I got my degree from if I can help it."

"It was nice. Advisers were not helpful, classes ranged from small to very large. I enjoyed my experience."

"Affordable, with excellent professors and a real commitment to international engagement. The University has strong institutional ties to partners in Mexico and the rest of Latin America. Opportunities for foreign study, research and travel were readily available, well supported, and easy to access."

"Not only was the process to get enrolled extremely prolonged, but the experience of attending this school was not very pleasant. A majority of the students attending were very rude and disrespectful towards the instructors. As for the instructors, most were brought to UNM from CNM and were either set in their ways of how they taught at CNM or were just horrific teachers that conducted their classrooms in a very tedious manner. The larger the classrooms were, the less you were able to contact the instructor and gain feedback or be eligible for office hours. The CAPS department was very helpful, but only if you were able to take a large chunk of your time to go up to see someone for help. The advisors are absolutely atrocious and have no idea what they are even telling you about what you need for your degree and what next semester holds. I was convinced that I needed 18 credit hours in order to receive my degree and still have my scholarship, but was lied to and deceived. I ended up having to drop out due the amount of stress and anxiety I was enduring just to try to keep up with a full-time job and the maximum amount of hours."

"This Dual Degree Program is difficult to manage because you have two advisors from two different departments that do not talk to one another. You have to be the middle man and manage two degrees on your own, the scheduling is not made with dual degree students in mind. However, I do think it is a much needed degree combination in states that face issues now and in the future concerning water."

"As a recently Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, I searched from my Moroccan apartment for a program back in the States with a focus on Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Beyond this, I hoped to find a program full of diversity, forward thinking about current language acquisition theories, and concrete skills helpful for finding meaningful work in an international education setting upon graduation. I feel that the University of New Mexico LLSS Department has given me a home to find all of these. As a TESOL student for the past year, I have learned much in the way of how to best utilize my teaching skills to propel my student forward in their goal of learning a new language. Because I have only recently returned to America, I have found the highly diverse population of my department to be something of a comfort to me as I maneuver my way through reverse culture shock. I also enjoy the beautiful Albuquerque area and have spent much of the time I have between classes hiking the mountains and enjoying the desert view. I would recommend the Language, Literacy and Socioculture Studies program to anyone looking for a progressive language teaching program in a vibrant, youthful city."

"The Unversity of New Mexico Provides excellent opportunities for career advancement and training through its clinical psychology PhD program. As one of the top schools in the country for clinical psychology I believe it is incredibly competitive to be accepted. This competitiveness is both a pro and a con as qualified individuals may be turned away because of a limited number of spaces; however, this makes the competing class size manageable for instructors and amenable for a learning environment."