Eastern New
Mexico University-Main Campus
Public College in Portales, NM. Six-year graduation rate 45%. Median 10-year earnings $38,550.
Students who entered Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus reach a median of $38,550 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. The six-year graduation rate is 45%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $16,500 in debt — in line with the national norm. On economic mobility, 2.1% of students travel from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 92% of applicants are accepted. 1,727 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Yield sits at 37% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. Score ranges below describe the middle half of score submitters among enrolled first-years; students who applied test-optional are not represented in them.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 430–540 | 298 (51%) |
| SAT Math | 400–520 | |
| ACT Composite | 17–23 | 84 (14%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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45% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 62% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. Transfer-out runs to 25% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. Unusually, part-time retention (73%) beats full-time, pointing to a student body that is part-time by design.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,186 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $6,416 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Net price varies modestly by income — $3,663 at $0–30k against $9,996 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 80% of students at an average of $9,915. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 24% of students.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 478 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $3,663 |
| $30–48k | $3,080 |
| $48–75k | $5,960 |
| $75–110k | $8,388 |
| $110k+ | $9,996 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 770 of these 3,186 students, totalling $5,129,704 — an average of $6,662 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Roosevelt County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)