2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Human Services 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 “Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in New Mexico” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Human Services is the 74th most popular major in the country with 12,645 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, human services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,302 and had an average of $28,284 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 10 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,700 and $44,875 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 human services graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,995 and $14,826 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality human services programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the human services program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in New Mexico” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in New Mexico.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Human Services in New Mexico

#1

Western New Mexico University

Silver City, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$12,411 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Human Services Schools for an Associate in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, Western New Mexico University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Silver City, New Mexico, this small public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified associates’s human services students in 2019-2020.

Western New Mexico University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Human Services Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Western New Mexico University is $12,411 for new mexico associate degree human services students.

Read more about Human Services at Western New Mexico University

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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