2023 Most Well Attended Economics Major in New Mexico for a Doctorate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Economics Major in New Mexico for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,859 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Economics Major in New Mexico for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in economics. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in economics.

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Most Well Attended Economics Major in New Mexico for a Doctorate

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

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Economics in New Mexico

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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 Most Well Attended Economics Major in New Mexico for a Doctorate list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s economics students in 2020-2021.

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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 #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Economics Major in New Mexico for a Doctorate list. NMSU Main Campus is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 26 doctorate’s economics degrees to qualified students.

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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.

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