Mesalands Community College is located in
Tucumcari,
Quay County, NM, and has an enrollment of about 460.
The College offers some unique coursework including the Farrier Program, the Fine Arts (in Bronze) Program and the Paleontology Program.
A "hands-on" as well as a classroom approach defines the Farrier Program. The student becomes knowledgeable in horsemanship, cold shoeing, hot shoeing, therapeutic shoeing, and blacksmithing.
The Fine Arts-Bronze Program involves coursework such as Drawing, 2-dimensional Design, 3-dimensional Design, Sculpture, Painting, and Foundry. Within this framework, students produce dinosaurs for the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum.
