NM higher education enrollment down

By Mike Bush. New Mexico’s colleges and universities saw – by far – the steepest enrollment drop in the nation over the past year.
From spring semester 2014 to the spring of 2015, enrollment in New Mexico’s post-secondary institutions plummeted 8.3 percent, compared with a national decline of 1.9 percent, according to a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Overall, New Mexico had 10,914 fewer students enrolled in its colleges and universities this spring when compared to last spring. More...