2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 556,813 liberal arts / sciences and humanities students received their degree, making the major the 3rd most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 6,958 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,069 and $13,490 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in liberal arts / sciences and humanities.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico

The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico master’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in New Mexico

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St. John's College
Santa Fe, New Mexico

#4 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St. John’s College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico list. This small school is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and it awarded 19 masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full St. John’s College Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Report

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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 #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school awarded 148 diplomas to qualified masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities students in 2020-2021.

Full NMSU Main Campus Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities

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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