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New Mexico State University
College of Engineering

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Employers

Engineering graduates are in high demand and, as a graduate of NMSU, you will have plenty of career options. With a degree in engineering, these opportunities include private industry, government agencies and academia. Your undergraduate education also prepares you for graduate studies in engineering, advanced science and other fields, such as business administration, medical an law school programs.

The National Association of Colleges and Employers reports that engineers earn some of the highest starting salaries among those holding bachelor's degrees, and our graduates are no exception. NMSU holds the largest annual career fair in the region. Click here to see the latest schedule of career fairs and services offered by Career Services.

Our engineering students are recruited by the following companies and agencies:

Private Industry

Baker Concrete
Bohannan-Houston, Inc.
Centex Corp.
Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers Inc.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.
Conoco Phillips
Cummins
Dow Chemical Co.
El Paso Electric
Ethicon Inc.
ExxonMobil Corp.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.
General Dynamics Corp.
General Electric Co.

General Motors Corp.
Goodrich Aerospace
Halliburton
Harris Corp.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
IBM Corp.
Intel Corp.
Jacobs Engineering
Kiewit New Mexico
Leprino Foods Co.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Louisiana Energy Service
Molzen-Corbin & Associates
Nestlé
Northrop Grumman
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Precision Energy Services, Inc.
Procter & Gamble Co.
Public Service Co.of NM
Raytheon Co.
Siemens Energy
The Boeing Co.
Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc.
Tyson Food, Inc.
Western Refining
Worley Parsons
XCEL Energy

Government Agencies

Arizona Department of Transportation
CIA
FBI
Holloman Air Force Base
Los Alamos National Laboratory
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
NASA
National Nuclear Security Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
New Mexico Department of Transportation
Sandia National Laboratories
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Interior
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center
U.S. Navy NAVAIR
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. Postal Service
U.S. State Department
White Sands Missile Range