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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Mexico” ranking - to help you make that decision.

With 198,468 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, engineering is the 7th most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,653 and had an average of $23,855 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 1,111 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,505 and $21,020 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 290 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Mexico” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in 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 Engineering Major in New Mexico

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in New Mexico

1

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

#3 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. New Mexico Tech is a public institution located in Socorro, New Mexico. The school has a small population, and it awarded 46 masters’s degrees 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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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 Engineering Major in New Mexico list. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 89 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Mexico list. UNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 155 masters’s engineering 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.