2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in New Mexico

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Mexico” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 9,470 people earned their degree in religious studies, making the major the 90th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,289 and had an average of $24,431 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 10 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,779 and $27,879 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in religious studies. That schools that top this list have a program in religious studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in New Mexico

1

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 #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Mexico. Located in Hobbs, New Mexico, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s religion students in 2020-2021.

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2

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Mexico. UNM is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 5 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
Portales, New Mexico

#11 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in New Mexico list. ENMU - Main Campus is located in Portales, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s religion degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Religious Studies at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies

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.

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