title: Southwest Border Security Consortium
text: # Southwest Border Security Consortium
  
  The Southwest Border Security Consortium (SBSC) is a joint venture of nine U.S. universities in the states of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas to develop and promote scientific and policy solutions to issues facing the United States-Mexico border region.
  
  The SBSC is also addressing border issues by offering a comprehensive, multi-institutional set of capabilities to relevant agencies such as the federal departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Energy and Transportation.
  
  ## Members
  
  ### Arizona
  
  * Arizona State University
  * University of Arizona
  
  ### California
  
  * San Diego State University
  
  ### New Mexico
  
  * New Mexico State University
  * New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech)
  * University of New Mexico
  
  ### Texas
  
  * Texas A&M University
  * University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
  * University of Texas at San Antonio
  