2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Laboratory Technician in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in New Mexico” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 4,185 people earned their degree in laboratory technician, making the major the 193rd most popular in the United States.

Across New Mexico, there were 43 laboratory technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 laboratory technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,811 and $16,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in New Mexico” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in laboratory technician. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their laboratory technician program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in New Mexico” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in New Mexico”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Laboratory Technician in New Mexico

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University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus
Gallup, New Mexico

#17 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in New Mexico. UNM Gallup is located in Gallup, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 associates’s clinical laboratory technician degrees to qualified students.

Full University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus Laboratory Technician Report

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Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central New Mexico Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Technician Major in New Mexico. This fairly large school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 15 associates’s clinical laboratory technician degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Laboratory Technician at Central New Mexico Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Laboratory Technician in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Laboratory Technician

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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