2023 Most Focused Colleges for General Journalism in New Mexico

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Journalism Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,380 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New Mexico, there were 70 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Journalism Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general journalism. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general journalism.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools Highly Focused on Journalism Major in New Mexico

The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico journalism students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for General Journalism in New Mexico

1

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

$36,973 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,260 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 Highly Focused on Journalism Major in New Mexico list. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s journalism degrees to 37 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Journalism at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

2

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

$45,271 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,843 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Journalism Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school awarded 33 diplomas to qualified ’s journalism students in 2020-2021.

Full University of New Mexico - Main Campus General Journalism 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.

Credits

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