2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Natural Resources Conservation is the 49th most popular major in the country with 22,254 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, natural resources conservation graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,963 and had an average of $23,098 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 32 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 natural resources conservation graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,811 and $16,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in New Mexico” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in natural resources conservation. That schools that top this list have a program in natural resources conservation in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in New Mexico

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

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in New Mexico

1

University of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus
Los Alamos, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in New Mexico list. Los Alamos, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s conservation degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at UNM Los Alamos

2

Navajo Technical University
Crownpoint, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Navajo Technical University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in New Mexico. Navajo Tech is located in Crownpoint, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s conservation degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Natural Resources Conservation at Navajo Technical University

3

Northern New Mexico College
Espanola, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern New Mexico College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in New Mexico list. Located in Espanola, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified associates’s conservation students in 2020-2021.

Full Northern New Mexico College Natural Resources Conservation Report

4

Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe, New Mexico

#15 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Santa Fe Community College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in New Mexico. Santa Fe Community College is a small school located in Santa Fe, New Mexico that handed out 0 associates’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at Santa Fe Community College

4

Eastern New Mexico University - Ruidoso Campus
Ruidoso, New Mexico

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Conservation Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern New Mexico University - Ruidoso Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. Eastern New Mexico University - Ruidoso Campus is a small school located in Ruidoso, New Mexico that handed out 0 associates’s conservation degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Natural Resources Conservation at ENMU - Ruidoso Campus

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Resources Conservation

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 Lynn Betts.