2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in New Mexico

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Agriculture & Agriculture Operations is the 21st most popular major in the country with 49,899 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, agriculture and agriculture operations graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,342 and had an average of $19,867 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 510 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,680 and $17,869 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 185 agriculture and agriculture operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,779 and $27,879 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in agriculture and agriculture operations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in agriculture and agriculture operations.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in New Mexico”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Agriculture & Agriculture Operations in New Mexico

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New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a public institution located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 170 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

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Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
Portales, New Mexico

#11 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Major in New Mexico list. Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus is located in Portales, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 bachelors’s agriculture and agriculture operations degrees to qualified students.

Full Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus Agriculture & Agriculture Operations Report

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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