SOCORRO, N.M. – A new study by the Chronicle of Higher Education shows that New Mexico Tech ranks No. 9 among public universities in the nation for the percentage of engineering graduates who are female.

According to the publication, New Mexico Tech has seen a 15 percent increase in women graduates over the previous seven years, with 29 percent women in the Class of 2017.

Other schools in the top 10 include No. 2 UNC (32 percent), No. 3 Virginia (31.9 percent), No. 5 Michigan (29.4 percent) and No. 10 Texas-Austin (28.7 p0ercent).

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