About Eastern New Mexico University

Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU or Eastern) is a public academic circles with a main campus in Portales, New Mexico, and two belong to degree-granting branches, one at Ruidoso and one at Roswell. ENMU is New Mexico’s largest regional comprehensive college circles and is the most recently founded state college circles in New Mexico (legislated in 1927, opened in 1934). It is a federally designated Hispanic-serving institution and a member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. The ENMU System consists of three campuses.

Portales is a city in and the county chair of Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 12,280 at the 2010 census. Portales is located near the larger city of Clovis, as well as Cannon Air Force Base, a major contributor to the economy of the region.

Eastern New Mexico University opened in Portales in 1934 as Eastern New Mexico Junior College, and has in the past grown to become the third-largest college circles in the state. The area is one of the largest producers of Valencia peanuts in the United States and is the nation’s summit producer of official organic peanut butter. Portales is home to about 40 dairies and a major US dairy solids plant, together producing and exporting hundreds of millions of dollars of local milk products each year. It is the principal city of the Portales Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Clovis-Portales Combined Statistical Area, including Clovis, 19 miles (31 km) away and Cannon Air Force Base, 13 miles (21 km) away.