2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in New Mexico

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Engineering Technologies is the 20th most popular major in the country with 85,188 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,350 and had an average of $21,560 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 660 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,976 and $14,600 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,779 and $27,879 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technologies. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering technologies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in New Mexico

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

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in New Mexico

1

Northern New Mexico College
Espanola, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern New Mexico College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in New Mexico list. Northern New Mexico College is located in Espanola, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

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2

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 #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in New Mexico list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 48 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

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3

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

#3 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in New Mexico list. Socorro, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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4

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 #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in New Mexico. This small school is located in Portales, New Mexico, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies

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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