by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Sociology is the 25th most popular major in the country with 38,475 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, sociology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,426 and had an average of $24,587 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Mexico, there were 252 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,580 and $25,472 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 109 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,779 and $27,879 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in sociology. That schools that top this list have a program in sociology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico bachelor’s degree sociology students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in New Mexico. Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus is a small school located in Portales, New Mexico that handed out 19 bachelors’s sociology degrees in 2020-2021.
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 #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s sociology degrees to 58 students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. NMSU Main Campus is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 30 bachelors’s sociology degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, Western New Mexico University landed the #4 spot on the list. Western New Mexico University is located in Silver City, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s sociology degrees to qualified students.
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