About New Mexico Tech and Socorro
Socorro (home to New Mexico Tech) is a sunny, friendly town located in central New Mexico. The town (pop. 9,000) is located in the Rio Grande valley, at an elevation of 4,600 ft. Albuquerque is located 75 mi to the north. Socorro is in the heart of ranching and farming territory, but its main industries are education and research. The two biggest employers in town are New Mexico Tech and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Socorro offers a pleasant combination of a rural New Mexico lifestyle and a small college town.
Links to websites describing
New Mexico Tech and Socorro:
About Socorro (NMT Site)
El Defensor Cheiftain (local newspaper)
A radio telescope dish at the National Radio
Astronomy Orbservatory (top). Looking west
at "M" Mountain from Socorro (bottom).
