2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in New Mexico” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Accounting is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 73,172 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across New Mexico, there were 264 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 60 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their accounting program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in New Mexico

The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico master’s degree accounting students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in New Mexico

1

University of the Southwest
Hobbs, New Mexico

#13 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Southwest. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in New Mexico. University of the Southwest is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hobbs, New Mexico. It awarded 7 masters’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Accounting at USW

2

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in New Mexico. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 22 masters’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.

Full NMSU Main Campus Accounting Report

3

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 31 masters’s accounting degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Accounting at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting

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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