2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Professions in New Mexico

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Health Professions is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 2nd of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 977,800 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,927 and had an average of $20,846 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 5,898 health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,261 and $21,503 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 348 health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,859 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in health professions. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their health professions program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in New Mexico

The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico doctor’s degree health professions students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health Professions in New Mexico

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in New Mexico list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school awarded 188 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s health professions students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Health Professions at UNM

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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in New Mexico list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 15 doctorate’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Health Professions at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

3

University of the Southwest
Hobbs, New Mexico

#13 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Southwest. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in New Mexico. Located in Hobbs, New Mexico, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 30 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s health professions students in 2020-2021.

Full University of the Southwest Health Professions Report

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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.