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I started my academic career at NMSU when I was 18. Right out of highschool I enrolled at NMSU. I completed my bachelors and in the 4 years I was there I loved every minute of it. I remember the parties the student events and the football games with my friends. The classes were designed well and my professors took an interests in our lives and made us feel important. After a couple of years I decided to go back for my Master's. The experience was mind blowing and it was something I would never forget.... Read More The lessons I learned carried over to my job and life and I will always be grateful for them.

I will say the Bachelor program in Psychology is overall pretty good with high level professors. This is most definitely not a career launching program, so you will need to pursue a masters degree for a well paying career. But for a bachelors here, the classes offered are interesting (psychology and the law, social psyche, abnormal psyche). However there are some required courses that are so specialized like psychology and the brain which seems to be more for a medical career seeker. The advisors... Read More are awesome, so make sure to keep a regular schedule with one to get your degree without wasting time with nonsense classes. Overall, the program is fine but you cannot stop here, unless you want an entry level career for minimum wage.

The professors were great and very helpful. If they saw that you were trying to succeed they would help you try to reach your goals no matter how much you were struggling. The professors also help you as much as possible if you are planning on going to graduate school. They will get you all the resources you will need to apply for graduate school. As an undergrad in Counseling and community psychology there were a few of us who graduated with that degree, which I thought was great because you go... Read More through the majority of the classes with the same people. So you get to create a bond with the people you are doing the same degree as, especially if you are graduating in the same semester.

The professors were great and very helpful. If they saw that you were trying to succeed they would help you try to reach your goals no matter how much you were struggling. The professors also help you as much as possible if you are planning on going to graduate school. They will get you all the resources you will need to apply for graduate school. As an undergrad in Counseling and community psychology there were a few of us who graduated with that degree, which I thought was great because you go... Read More through the majority of the classes with the same people. So you get to create a bond with the people you are doing the same degree as, especially if you are graduating in the same semester.

I attended this school because I was awarded a scholarship which assisted me financially. This university has seemingly exceptional programs in certain fields of study, such as engineering, however limited in others. Studying psychology at this university, the classes were met with basic instruction and offered narrow insight to the options of careers psychology offers. The psychology degree program did not have academic advisers during the years which I attended, thus limiting my exposure and ability... Read More to explore the realm of using psychology after college. The classes were average, however, I am disappointed in the limited assistance of advisers in preparing students for careers after completion of the degree. There are a variety of sectors in which psychology can be applied in the workplace, however much of this was done by my own research and discovery.

New Mexico State University is a wonderful school for a multitude of reasons. The academic program is tough and rigorous, and I think it does an excellent job of simulating the experience of being a teaching and producing artist in the real world after graduation. There are many opportunities for working in a gallery, as a teacher, and as a tech or administrative assistant, giving the student a wide range of potential work experience within the safety of a supervised program. Students can try on... Read More different roles with a lot of professional mentoring from the faculty. The community element is also very important. You are not just another student, but are treated almost as an equal with the staff and faculty. Your feedback and participation is valued and the people your are in the program with genuinely care about you and your well being as you move through the difficulties of the program. I came to this school as a cancer survivor with many other co-morbid chronic diseases, not knowing if I was going to be able to compete or fully participate in the program. The support I have received both professionally and emotionally from students, staff, and faculty has made my transition back into academia after almost ten years away a lot easier and has given me the confidence that I will be able to compete professionally when I graduate. I would recommend this school to anyone seeking an MFA and looking for a fully supportive community of like minded individuals.

Overall I believe NMSU is a beautiful campus with diverse faculty and students. However, the Art Department is in need of a serious update. At the moment the old gymnasium of the campus was turned into the Art Dept that we know of today. As an art student, with an emphasis in Photography and Graphic Design, I experienced first hand the lack of equipment and space provided for art students. While attending the university, Photography students were working with 20+ year old lighting equipment and older... Read More printers. I will say the amount of film equipment is much better than modern photography equipment. Additionally, the department always changed instructors every year, which was very frustrating. Besides the lack of newer equipment I also felt the program was not very technical or hands on, possibly because of the lack of equipment. The instructors were definitely more interested in focusing on the conceptual aspect of photography. I definitely do feel that I grew a lot in the sense of understanding and developing new concepts for photography projects but did indeed feel the lack of the technical portion, which I ended up teaching myself.