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The Catalog offers an overview of all the programs at the New Mexico State University that offer graduate degrees, graduate minors. The Catalog contains the general rules and regulations that govern graduate degree programs. These include policies established by the Graduate School for admission, course work, the awarding of degrees and certificates, and the general criteria governing satisfactory progress in a degree program.
Please read this memo concerning the course information contained in the Graduate Catalog 2008-2009. This memo explains the process for updating course information in the Graduate Catalog. Click here to read the memo.
Entire Graduate Catalogs in PDF format:
2008 - 2009 PDF GRADUATE CATALOG
2007 - 2008 PDF GRADUATE CATALOG \ 2006 - 2007 PDF GRADUATE CATALOG
2005 - 2006 PDF GRADUATE CATALOG \ 2004 - 2005 PDF GRADUATE CATALOG
2008-2009 Catalog by Sections
COVER
TITLE PAGE
ADMINISTRATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE UNIVERSITY
ACCREDITATION
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS, SPECIALIZATIONS/CONCENTRATIONS, AND APPROVED MINORS
ADMISSION
- Domestic Student Application for Admission
- International Student Application for Admission
- Distance Education
- Administrative Deadlines
- Admission to a Graduate Certificate Program
- Transfer of Credits
- Transcripts
- Standardized Tests
- Readmission
- Renewal of Application for
Admission
- Denied Admission
- Categories of Graduate Students
- Regular Student
- Provisional Student
- Undeclared Graduate Student
- Graduate Study by University Seniors (Senior Petitioner)
- Visiting Student
- Nondegree Status/Post Baccalaureate
- Out-of-State Students and Legal Jurisdiction
- Graduate Certificate Student
TUITION, FEES, AND OTHER EXPENSES
- Tuition and Required Fees
- Optional Fees
- Dining Services
- Housing Services
- Late Registration Penalties
- Payment of Charges
- Tuition Adjustments, Refunds and Forfeitures
- Dishonored checks / credit cards
- Distance Education Fees
- Resident / Nonresident Status
- Veteran Students
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
- Awards of the Graduate School
- Merit-based Enhancement Fellowships for Current Graduate Assistants
- The Mike Watts Outstanding Leadership Graduate Fellowships of $1,000
- Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowships
- McNair Graduate Assistantships
- State Department of Higher Education (HED) Graduate Scholarship Programs
- Diversity Graduate Assistantships
- Fellowships
- Assistantships
- Graduate Assistants Salaries and Tax
Withholding Guidelines
- Hourly Work
FINANCIAL AID
- General Eligibility Requirements
-
Sources of Financial Aid
- Loans
- Work-Study Programs
- Financial Aid Awards
- Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic
Progress
- Financial Aid Suspension
- The Appeals Process
REGISTRATION
- Change of Address
- International Students
- Short Courses and Institutes
- Evening and Saturday Classes
- Summer School Sessions
- Application for Degree (Diploma)
- Application for a Certificate
REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR STUDENTS
- Grading System
- Veterans' Attendance and Satisfactory
Progress
- Policies on Graduate Courses
- Transfer of Graduate Credits into a Degree Program
- Transfer of Credits for Certificate Programs
- Leaving Graduate School
- Disciplinary Issues for Graduate Students
- Privacy Issues
- Purging of Student Files
- Name Changes on Transcripts
- Change of Address
- Evaluating Your Academic Experience
REQUIREMENTS FOR ENROLLED STUDENTS
- Full-Time Graduate Student
- Course Deficiencies
- Specializations/Concentrations
- Declaration of Minor
- Completing a Thesis or
Dissertation
- Registration for Summer Graduation
- Application for Degree (Diploma)
- Attendance at Commencement
THE MASTER’S DEGREE
- Amount and Distribution of Work
- Program of Study
- Application to Candidacy
- Thesis or Non-Thesis Option
- Continuous Enrollment
- Graduate Committee
- Final Examination
- Time Limit
- Minors
- Interdisciplinary Master's Degree
- Second Master's Degree
- Joint Degree Program
- Teacher Licensure
- Specialist in Education Degree
THE DOCTORAL DEGREES
- Preparation for Doctoral Degree
Programs
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
- Interdisciplinary Doctorate
- Requirements for the Doctoral
Degrees
- Declaration of Approved Minor
- Foreign Language Requirements
RESEARCH FACILITIES
- Agricultural Experiment Station
- Arts and Sciences Research Center
- Apache Point Observatory (APO-ARC)
- Bureau of Business Research and
Services
- Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring &
Research Center
- Center for Latin American and Border
Studies
- Computing Research Laboratory (CRL)
- Cooperative Extension Service
- Education Research Center (EdRC)
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory
- Engineering Research Center
- Information and Communication
Technologies
- New Mexico Department of
Agriculture
- New Mexico Water Resources Research
Institute
- New Mexico State University Library
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities Program (ORAU)
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
STUDENT SERVICES
- International Student and Scholar Services
- Center for Learning Assistance
- Corbett Center Student Union
- Counseling Center
- Financial Aid
- Parking Office
- Placement and Career Services
- Services for Students with
Disabilities
- Speech and Hearing Center
- Student Health Center
- Student Special Care Policy
- Testing Services
- Veterans Programs
- Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
COLLEGE OF EXTENDED LEARNING: DISTANCE EDUCATION
PROCEDURES AND GUIDELINES FOR FACULTY AND DEPARTMENTS
- Guidelines on Graduate Faculty
Nominations
- Proposals for New Concentrations/Specializations
- Proposal guidelines for new minors
- Proposal guidelines for joint degree
programs
- Proposal Guidelines for New Graduate Degree
Programs
- Guidelines and Procedures for Developing Post
Baccalaureate Certificate Programs for New Mexico
State University
GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS/COURSES OFFERED BY DEPARTMENT
- Accounting
- Agricultural and Extension Education
- Agricultural Economics
- Animal and Range Sciences
- Anthropology
- Art
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Business, College of
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Civil Engineering
- Communication Studies
- Computer Science
- Counseling and Educational Psychology
- Criminal Justice
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Economics and International Business
- Educational Management and Development
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- English
- Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Science
- Environmental Engineering
- Experimental Statistics
- Family and Consumer Sciences
- Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology
- Geography
- Geological Sciences
- Government
- Graduate School Courses
- Health Science
- History
- Industrial Engineering
- Mathematical Sciences
- Mechanical Engineering
- Molecular Biology
- Music
- Nursing
- Physics
- Plant and Environmental Sciences
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Spanish
- Special Education/Communication Disorders
- Other Graduate Courses
