2023 Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Social Work for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
69
Degrees Awarded
$30,840
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Social Work for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Social Work for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in social work. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality social work programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the social work program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Social Work for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Social Work for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Social Work for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in New Mexico
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Social Work for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s social work degrees to 40 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at NMSU Main Campus, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking.According to our most recent data, New Mexico State University - Main Campus supports 14,227 students, and 620 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 285 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $3,880. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western New Mexico University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Social Work for a Bachelor’s list. Western New Mexico University is located in Silver City, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 29 bachelors’s social work degrees to qualified students.
Western New Mexico University also made our “Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” list, coming in at #2.Of the 2,896 students enrolled at Western New Mexico University, 99 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 50 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,538. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Western New Mexico University]](/colleges/western-new-mexico-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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