2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in New Mexico

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in New Mexico” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Social Sciences is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 5th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 205,984 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,262 and had an average of $23,306 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 854 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,058 and $19,958 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,859 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in New Mexico” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in social sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their social sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in New Mexico

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in New Mexico list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a public institution located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The school has a large population, and it awarded 17 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Social Sciences at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Social Sciences Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 153 doctorate’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full NMSU Main Campus Social Sciences Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Social Sciences

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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