2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in New Mexico

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in New Mexico” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Geography & Cartography is the 110th most popular major in the country with 8,526 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, geography and cartography graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,604 and had an average of $22,522 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 59 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,819 and $19,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,779 and $27,879 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geography and cartography. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their geography and cartography program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography in New Mexico

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

$36,819 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,500 Average Student Debt

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 Geography Major in New Mexico. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 20 bachelors’s geography degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UNM Geography & Cartography Report

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in New Mexico. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 8 bachelors’s geography degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography

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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