2023 Most Well Attended Criminology Major in New Mexico

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Criminology is the 80th most popular major in the country with 11,039 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, criminology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,568 and had an average of $24,453 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 83 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,068 and $11,990 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Criminology Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in criminology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular criminology programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Criminology Major in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Criminology Major in New Mexico”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Criminology in New Mexico

1

Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 overall quality in New Mexico

$30,582 Average Early-Career Earnings

$9,447 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central New Mexico Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Criminology Major in New Mexico list. This fairly large school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 81 ’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Criminology at CNM

2

University of the Southwest
Hobbs, New Mexico

#13 overall quality in New Mexico

$42,227 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,031 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Criminology Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the Southwest landed the #2 spot on the list. Hobbs, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s criminology degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Full University of the Southwest Criminology Report

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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.