2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Mexico

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Social Work is the 13th most popular major in the country with 58,326 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 203 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

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

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Mexico”.

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

1

Western New Mexico University
Silver City, New Mexico

#12 overall quality in New Mexico

$44,919 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western New Mexico University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work Major in New Mexico. Located in Silver City, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 138 degrees to qualified masters’s social work students in 2020-2021.

Full Western New Mexico University Social Work Report

2

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

$45,552 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Social Work 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. This fairly large school is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and it awarded 65 masters’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Social Work at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

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