Find Colleges for Your GPA

Find target, reach, and safety schools based on your GPA, with acceptance rates and test score data for thousands of colleges.

Where your 4.0 fits: Safety, Target or Reach, from each college's reported average GPA and acceptance rate. A guide, not a prediction.

Colleges in New MexicoEvery college we list in New Mexico, with its average GPA and test scores where it reports them.

Showing 29 of 29 colleges
Colleges that report an average GPA (1) · best fit first
University of New Mexico Main CampusAlbuquerque, New Mexico Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,95% admitted
Average GPA3.40As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%460–600 R&W430–570 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–26
Your 4.0their average 3.40Safety
More colleges in your filters (no GPA reported)
New Mexico State University Main CampusLas Cruces, New Mexico Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,89% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%450–570 R&W420–540 Math
ACT, middle 50%17–24
Eastern New Mexico University Main CampusPortales, New Mexico Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,92% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%430–540 R&W400–520 Math
ACT, middle 50%17–23
New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologySocorro, New Mexico Public, 4-yearModerate to get into,44% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%550–660 R&W530–650 Math
ACT, middle 50%20–29
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts DevelopmentSanta Fe, New Mexico Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,97% admitted
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New Mexico Military InstituteRoswell, New Mexico Public, 2-yearFairly easy to get into,53% admitted
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St. John’s CollegeSanta Fe, New Mexico Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,53% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%680–750 R&W610–710 Math
ACT, middle 50%28–34
Central New Mexico Community CollegeAlbuquerque, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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New Mexico State University Dona AnaLas Cruces, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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San Juan CollegeFarmington, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Santa Fe Community CollegeSanta Fe, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Western New Mexico UniversitySilver City, New Mexico Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Clovis Community CollegeClovis, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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New Mexico Junior CollegeHobbs, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Eastern New Mexico University Roswell CampusRoswell, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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University of New Mexico Gallup CampusGallup, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Navajo Technical UniversityCrownpoint, New Mexico Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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New Mexico Highlands UniversityLas Vegas, New Mexico Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Southeast New Mexico CollegeCarlsbad, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Northern New Mexico CollegeEspanola, New Mexico Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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New Mexico State University AlamogordoAlamogordo, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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University of New Mexico Valencia County CampusLos Lunas, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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University of New Mexico Taos CampusRanchos de Taos, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Eastern New Mexico University Ruidoso Branch Community CollegeRuidoso, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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New Mexico State University GrantsGrants, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Luna Community CollegeLas Vegas, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Mesalands Community CollegeTucumcari, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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University of New Mexico Los Alamos CampusLos Alamos, New Mexico Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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University of the SouthwestHobbs, New Mexico Private nonprofit, 4-yearOpen admission
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How to read the figures

Example: how a college appears in the list
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan Public, 4-yearHard to get into,16% admitted
Average GPA3.90As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%680–750 R&W680–780 Math
ACT, middle 50%31–34
  • How hard it is to get in: the share of first-year applicants the college admitted for fall 2024. Very hard is under 10%, Hard 10–24%, Moderate 25–49%, Fairly easy 50–74% and Easy 75% or more. Open admission colleges accept everyone, so they have no rate.
  • Average GPA: the average high school GPA of the college's first-year students, from the college's own yearly report (its Common Data Set), with the year and, when the college says, whether it's weighted. Colleges calculate GPA in different ways, so use it as a rough guide, not a cutoff.
  • Safety, Target and Reach: with your GPA in the box, where it fits at each college that reports an average GPA. Your GPA is compared with the college's average (0.15 or more above it, close to it, or below it), and the acceptance rate decides how much that counts: a college that admits under 15% of applicants is a reach for everyone. Colleges that don't report an average get no label: we never estimate one.
  • SAT: the middle 50% of scores of first-year students who sent them, for reading and writing (R&W) and math. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above it.
  • ACT: the middle 50% of overall ACT scores, read the same way.

A dash means the college didn't report that figure.

Where the data comes from

FigureSourceData year
Acceptance rate, SAT and ACT rangesThe U.S. Department of Education's yearly college surveyFall 2024
Average high school GPA (268 colleges)Each college's own yearly report (Common Data Set)2023–24 to 2025–26
Average SAT for the SAT filter and sortCollege Scorecard, U.S. Department of EducationLatest available

Each college's page also has its enrollment, net price, admission factors and policies on AP and dual credit from the same survey, and gives the year of every figure. Admission policies change every year, so check anything important with the college's admissions office.

Sources

Reviewed by the GPA Calculator team · Updated October 2026

  1. IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data SystemU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
  2. College Scorecard dataU.S. Department of Education (June 10, 2026 release)
  3. Common Data Set InitiativeThe standard format colleges use to publish their own admissions data