2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in New Mexico

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Civil Engineering is the 50th most popular major in the country with 21,388 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $63,364 and had an average of $24,364 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 113 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,260 and $19,675 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in civil engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in civil engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in New Mexico

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

$61,897 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in New Mexico. UNM is a large public school situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It awarded 30 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng 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 3 masters’s civil eng degrees to qualified students.

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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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