Our Mission

GEO helps UNM students, faculty, and staff to understand and work effectively in a complex and rapidly changing global world.

• Facilitating campus internationalization.
• Forging strategic partnerships with academic institutions and government partners around the globe.
• Acting as a liaison for U.S. government agencies, foreign embassies, sponsors and educational foundations that support international education.
• Supporting UNM faculty to engage in virtual teaching collaborations and develop/lead courses abroad.
• Advising and facilitating education abroad for UNM students.
• Recruiting and admitting international students.
• Offering intensive education in English as a Second Language (ESL).
• Providing immigration advice, onboarding support, and campus information and transition services for international students and visiting scholars.
• Offering a range of non-credit, high-impact, short-term certificate programs tailored to the academic level and organizational interests of our international collaborators.