2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in New Mexico” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 120,571 people earned their degree in communication and journalism, making the major the 11th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, communication and journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,266 and had an average of $24,758 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 227 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,350 and $13,477 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 104 communication and journalism 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 Communication & Journalism Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in communication and journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in New Mexico”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in New Mexico

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

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 Communication & Journalism Major in New Mexico list. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 59 bachelors’s communication and journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
Portales, New Mexico

#11 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in New Mexico. Portales, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s communication and journalism degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.

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University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in New Mexico list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 33 bachelors’s communication and journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Josh Hallett.