NMSU’s Office Institutional Effectiveness provides oversight and support for accreditation activities on the Las Cruces campus and across our NMSU-system two-year campuses. Specific functions include:

  • Serving as Las Cruces campus liaison to the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). This includes ensuring NMSU’s compliance with HLC requirements and facilitating HLC approval of program and institutional changes as required.
  • Assisting colleges and academic programs in their efforts to achieve and sustain accreditation by specialized accrediting agencies.

Institutional Accreditation

New Mexico State University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Higher Learning Commission (HLC)
230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500, Chicago, Illinois 60604-1411
Phone: 800.621.7440 / 312.263.0456
Fax: 312.263.7462
Email: info@hlcommission.org
Website: https://www.hlcommission.org/.

You may review NMSU’s accreditation standing with the HLC by clicking on the Higher Learning Commission icon on this page or on the button below. Information for filing a complaint with the HLC is available on the HLC Complaint Process website.

NMSU HLC Statements of Accreditation Status

 

Detailed information about NMSU’s HLC and specialized professional accreditations is available on our Specialized Accreditation webpage. Click the links below to find information about how to file a complaint with the respective entity.

To request copies of NMSU’s accreditation or licensure documents, contact the Office of Accreditation at 575-646-5095, or email accrediation@nmsu.edu.

CHEA accreditation verification logo

Protocol for Communicating NMSU’s Affiliation with HLC

  • The NMSU website is compliant with HLC requirements to reflect our current accreditation status.
  • NMSU is not required to reference our affiliation or accreditation status on published marketing or promotional material, or on websites other than the one identified above.
  • IF and WHEN NMSU’s affiliation and accreditation status is referenced on published materials, we must also include HLC’s website address and telephone number. In doing so, we must ensure that placement of this information does not confuse the public about how to contact HLC as opposed to how to obtain information from NMSU. Such statements should read as follows:

NMSU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission
https://www.hlcommission.org/
HLC phone:  800.621.7440

  • NMSU may not use HLC’s logos for promotional or advertising purposes.

 

For information about Accreditation at other NMSU-System campuses:

NMSU Grants

NMSU Doña Ana Community College

NMSU Alamogordo

US Department of Education renews HLC’s Recognition as a National Accrediting Agency*

*This document is housed on NMSU Inside. If you need access as a non-NMSU affiliated individual, please email accreditation@nmsu.edu.