As if to simply affirm what the Rio Grande foundation has been saying about New Mexico’s higher education system (see here, here, and here), a new 50-state report card from the US Chamber of Commerce and Institute for a Competitive Workforce, ranks New Mexico poorly on many aspects of higher education.
A few of the lowlights from the report:
4 year Access and Success: “D”, 2 year “F”;
Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness “D” for both 4 and 2 year;
4 yearMeeting Labor Market Demand “D”, 2 year “F”;
4 year Transparency and Accountability “F”, 2 year “D”;
The full report is worth a read.
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