2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major 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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 195,678 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, psychology is the 8th most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,611 and had an average of $25,989 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 1,062 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,023 and $15,235 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,859 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in psychology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in psychology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in New Mexico

The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico doctor’s degree psychology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychology in New Mexico

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New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in New Mexico. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s psychology students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Psychology at NMSU Main Campus

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University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s psychology degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Psychology at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychology in the Southwest Region
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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

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