Clueless about costs

UNM offers a range of merit scholarships–some of them guaranteed–starting with a 26 ACT score(with 3.0 GPA)

https://scholarship.unm.edu/scholarships/

The Amigo (26 Act/ 3.0 unweighted GPA) will get her instate tuition.
Annual tuition costs for a full time student $7366/year for 2020-21
Room & board is likewise reasonable at around $11K/year for a traditional dorm and highest level meal plan.

UNM offers an ABET-accredited CS program, with summer internship opportunities available at Los Alamos National Lab, Sandia National Lab, Air Force Research Lab, White Sands. Plus Facebook just opened a major data center. UNM offers one of few graduate physics/engineering programs in quantum computing in the US.