2023 Most Well Attended Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico for a Master’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 556,813 degrees were awarded to students with this major. 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 “Most Well Attended Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. To top this list, a school must have a successful liberal arts / sciences and humanities program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular 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

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, St. John’s College landed the #1 spot on the list. Santa Fe, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees to 19 students 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full St. John’s 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 be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Mexico for a Master’s list. 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.

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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 Jacques Sablet (Switzerland, Morges, 1749-1803).