Jointly offered degree programs include the M.A. in library science with the University of Texas at Austin, the Doctor of Pharmacy with the University of Texas at Austin, a master's degree in public health and doctorate in nursing with the University of Texas-Health Science Center in Houston, and the Doctor of Philosophy in border studies with the University of Texas at Austin. Throughout the campus, there are PCs and Macs, including high-performance graphics workstations, available for academic and research purposes.
Aid is also available to part-time students.
The student body consists of 11,450 undergraduate students and 2,132 graduate students. Women comprise 53.8 percent of the student body. The average age of the graduate student body is 34. Location El Paso is located in west Texas. It borders New Mexico and Mexico and has a population of more than 600,000 people.