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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in New Mexico” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Economics is the 19th most popular major in the country with 49,055 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, economics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,736 and had an average of $22,046 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 93 economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,677 and $18,035 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in economics. That schools that top this list have a program in economics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in New Mexico” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Economics in New Mexico

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in New Mexico list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s economics degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Economics at UNM

2

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 #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Economics Major in New Mexico. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 1 masters’s economics degrees in 2020-2021.

Full New Mexico State University - Main Campus Economics Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Economics in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Economics

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to pixabay.