2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major 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 for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Educational Assessment is the 184th most popular major in the country with 3,853 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , educational assessment graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $55,573 and had an average of $36,314 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 49 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $37,223 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in educational assessment. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their educational assessment program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in New Mexico

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment in New Mexico

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in New Mexico list. This small school is located in Hobbs, New Mexico, and it awarded 17 masters’s assessment degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of the Southwest Educational Assessment Report

2

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 #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Assessment Major in New Mexico list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school handed out 29 degrees to qualified masters’s assessment students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Educational Assessment at UNM

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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