2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in New Mexico

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 17,689 people earned their degree in hospitality management, making the major the 66th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,874 and had an average of $22,906 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 72 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,312 and $26,125 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 hospitality management 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 Hospitality Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in hospitality management. That schools that top this list have a program in hospitality management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in New Mexico

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in New Mexico

1

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

$26,312 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,125 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in New Mexico list. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 36 bachelors’s hospitality degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

2

University of the Southwest
Hobbs, New Mexico

#13 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Southwest. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Hospitality Major in New Mexico list. Located in Hobbs, New Mexico, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s hospitality students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Hospitality Management at University of the Southwest

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management

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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