2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in New Mexico

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 9th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 68,079 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,728 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 134 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,500 and $8,728 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,108 and $24,162 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communication and media studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in New Mexico

#1

Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

Portales, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$9,516 Average Net Price

$26,739 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico list. Located in Portales, New Mexico, this medium-sized public school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s communications students in 2019-2020.

ENMU - Main Campus also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus is $9,516 for New Mexico Bachelor’s Degree Communications students.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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