2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in New Mexico

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 55,820 people earned their degree in family, consumer and human sciences, making the major the 22nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, family, consumer and human sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,354 and had an average of $23,570 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 465 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,819 and $17,549 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 family, consumer and human sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in family, consumer and human sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in family, consumer and human sciences.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in New Mexico”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Family, Consumer & Human Sciences in New Mexico

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in New Mexico. NMSU Main Campus is a public institution located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 16 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

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 #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Major in New Mexico. UNM is a public institution located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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