2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work 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 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 Social Work Major in New Mexico” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 58,326 people earned their degree in social work, making the major the 13th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $37,651 and had an average of $26,679 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 428 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,675 and $22,030 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 69 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,779 and $27,879 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in social work. That schools that top this list have a program in social work in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in New Mexico

1

Western New Mexico University
Silver City, New Mexico

#12 overall quality in New Mexico

$34,590 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, Western New Mexico University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Silver City, New Mexico, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

$30,840 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,500 Average Student Debt

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 Social Work Major in New Mexico. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 40 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work

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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