Rankings
The Princeton Review listed UNM as a "Best Western College" and ranked the School of Engineering 14th out of the Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs. In addition, Times Higher Education ranked UNM at #383–385 on its world university rankings list, while the Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UNM at #201–302 out of world universities and #91–112 out of universities in the United States.
US News & World Report ranked UNM at 181 in the country in their 2012 ranking of "Best Colleges." As of April 2010, the USNWR ranked the UNM School of Medicine 82 in research and 33 in primary care out of 146 medical and osteopathic schools. They also ranked the Family Medicine residency program at 10 and the Rural Medicine residency program at 2. In 2006, the UNM Health Sciences Center's curriculum received the following rankings: 3rd in Nursing Midwifery, 5th in Community Health, 15th in Family Nurse Practitioner, and 23rd in Occupational Therapy. The University of New Mexico School of Law is currently ranked 68th in the country and has steadily climbed in the USNWR rankings. The Clinical Law program in particular is one of the best in the country according to USNWR, coming in at #5 nationwide. Also according to USNWR ranking the school is the 5th best graduate school in photography.
The University of New Mexico Model United Nations team is one of the top ranked teams in the country, with multiple awards at several different competitions, most notably the Harvard World Model United Competition in Geneva, Switzerland and Puebla, Mexico. They have also competed and won awards at the St. Mary's University Model Organization of American States Conference.
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