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

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In 2020-2021, 10,974 people earned their degree in anthropology, making the major the 75th most popular in the United States.

Across New Mexico, there were 107 anthropology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 64 anthropology 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 Anthropology Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in anthropology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in anthropology.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

1

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 #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s anthropology degrees to 46 students in 2020-2021.

Full UNM Anthropology Report

2

Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
Portales, New Mexico

#11 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in New Mexico. Located in Portales, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s anthropology students in 2020-2021.

Full ENMU - Main Campus Anthropology Report

3

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Anthropology Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s anthropology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Anthropology at NMSU Main Campus

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

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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