A degree in journalism is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #69 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Journalism Schools in New Mexico ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 70 degrees in journalism during the 2020-2021 academic year.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Journalism Schools in New Mexico list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of journalism degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in journalism has to look into University of New Mexico - Main Campus. UNM is a very large public university located in the large city of Albuquerque.
Journalism degree recipients from University of New Mexico - Main Campus get an earnings boost of around $3,869 over the average earnings of journalism graduates.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in journalism. NMSU Main Campus is a large public university located in the suburb of Las Cruces.
Students who graduate with their degree from the journalism program report average early career income of $25,254.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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