New Mexico Highlands University is a small public college located in Las Vegas, NM ranked 12th in New Mexico. It has a total of 2,197 full-time undergraduate students. New Mexico Highlands University offers 71 different majors and is best known for its Preschool Education and Teaching and Health Teacher Education programs, which are respectively ranked 19th and 21st in the US. With an annual tuition of $4,440 for students from New Mexico and $8,712 for those from out-of-state, New Mexico Highlands University is pretty cheap. 30.76% of students graduate beginning the next chapter of their lives, working. After finishing their studies, alumni go on to take in roughly $36,300 per year, which is 13% less than the national median.