2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology in New Mexico

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 32,740 people earned their degree in exercise science and kinesiology, making the major the 22nd most popular in the United States.

Across New Mexico, there were 114 exercise science and kinesiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 95 exercise science and kinesiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,779 and $27,879 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in New Mexico” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in exercise science and kinesiology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their exercise science and kinesiology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in New Mexico”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology in New Mexico

1

University of the Southwest
Hobbs, New Mexico

#13 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the Southwest landed the #1 spot on the list. USW is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hobbs, New Mexico. It awarded 14 bachelors’s exercise science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of the Southwest Exercise Science and Kinesiology Report

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in New Mexico list. NMSU Main Campus is a public institution located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 81 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full New Mexico State University - Main Campus Exercise Science and Kinesiology Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology

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.