2021 Best Colleges in New Mexico for Students from Sri Lanka

It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for international students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Sri Lankan Students in New Mexico ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the best for Sri Lankan students in New Mexico. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the total number of international students at the school and the school's overall quality.

Find out more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in New Mexico for Students from Sri Lanka

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, NM

$24,254 Avg Tuition & Fees

4.7% International Students

Our analysis found New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to be the best school for Sri Lankan students in New Mexico in this year’s ranking. New Mexico Tech is a public institution located in Socorro, New Mexico. The school has a small population, and it awarded 225 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 4.7% of the total student body at the school. Students studying at New Mexico Tech come from such countries as China, India, and Nepal.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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2

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, NM

$23,767 Avg Tuition & Fees

5.4% International Students

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2021 Best Colleges for Sri Lankan students in New Mexico list. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large public school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 2,425 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 5.4% of the total student body at the school. The top three countries sending students to study at NMSU Main Campus are Kuwait, Mexico, and India.

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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.