2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Mexico

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With 113,121 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, criminal justice and corrections is the 7th most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, criminal justice and corrections graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,465 and had an average of $25,425 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 641 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,476 and $24,998 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice and corrections. That schools that top this list have a program in criminal justice and corrections in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Mexico

The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico master’s degree criminal justice students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in New Mexico

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Mexico list. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s criminal justice students in 2020-2021.

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University of the Southwest
Hobbs, New Mexico

#13 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Southwest. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Mexico list. Located in Hobbs, New Mexico, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s criminal justice students in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections

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.