New Mexico is really working on its college education programs.

College students in New Mexico may have discounted tuition fees soon.

According to the Associated Press, lawmakers in the state are seriously considering whether state colleges could offer lower tuition fees to selected international students from Mexico.

The lower tuition fee proposal for New Mexico was discussed Monday by the Legislative Finance Committee.

The proposal is asking if there's a possibility that New Mexico state college students who are from Mexican states Chihuahua and Sonora could have their tuition rates reduced.

On Tuesday, the start of a 30-day legislative session is set to take place, and the bill on reduced tuition for students of New Mexico will be introduced at the session if the Legislative Finance Committee decides to endorse it.

In addition to the New Mexico tuition proposal, the committee is also looking into other education-based proposals. These include plans of restricting double-funding students at charter schools on a formula based on growth and plans of increasing public school funding for students who could fail.

New Mexico is also in the works to create a tracking system for college students' degree programs.

Six colleges and universities in the state are working on a tracking program based on a project from the University of New Mexico.

According to the Albuquerque Journal, the institutions are creating a website that will help students track required courses and find out whether their credits are transferrable and how they can be moved in other colleges or universities in the state.

The course-tracking website is only one of the state's many programs aimed at assisting students in graduating on time.

According to the Associate Provost for Curriculum at UNM Greg Heileman, he and other researchers at the university have been doing work on a project called "Degree Plans: Roadmaps for Higher Education in New Mexico" for four years now.

Through the project, New Mexico colleges will be able to participate in a statewide degree pathway where they will help students track their credits by uploading their degree programs on a single website.

With the website, the researchers are hoping to offer a means for students and college officials to see which courses they can take to finish a degree, as well as how to transfer credits from one college or university to another.

"This is what we think will make the state better - the ability of our students to track the progress towards their degrees," Heileman said.

"The overall goal is really to improve higher education in the state of New Mexico," he added.