2023 Most Well Attended IE Major in New Mexico for a Bachelor’s

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In 2020-2021, 9,072 people earned their degree in industrial engineering, making the major the 87th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, industrial engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,960 and had an average of $24,268 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 73 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,572 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 industrial engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,779 and $27,879 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended IE Major in New Mexico for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in industrial engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful industrial engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended IE Major in New Mexico for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended IE Major in New Mexico for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in New Mexico

1

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended IE Major in New Mexico for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

Full NMSU Main Campus Industrial Engineering Report

2

Navajo Technical University
Crownpoint, New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended IE Major in New Mexico for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Navajo Technical University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Crownpoint, New Mexico, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s IE degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Navajo Technical University Industrial Engineering Report

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering in the Southwest Region
• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Engineering

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.