2021 Best Colleges in New Mexico for Students from South Korea

With all of the options international students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Colleges for South Korean Students in New Mexico ranking is part of that endeavor.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the best for South Korean students in New Mexico. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the percentage of international students on campus.

See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in New Mexico for Students from South Korea

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, NM

$25,243 Avg Tuition & Fees

4.5% International Students

University of New Mexico - Main Campus tops this year’s ranking as the best school for South Korean students in New Mexico. This large public school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 4,294 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 4.5% are international. Students from as far away as China, India, and Nepal come to UNM to study.

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2

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, NM

$23,767 Avg Tuition & Fees

5.4% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at New Mexico State University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for South Korean students in New Mexico. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 2,425 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 5.4% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as Kuwait, Mexico, and India come to NMSU Main Campus to study.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.