2025 Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in New Mexico
3Colleges in New Mexico
127Communications Degrees Awarded
$36,850Avg Early-Career Salary
Ranked #10 in popularity, communication & media studies is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in New Mexico ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 127 degrees in communication & media studies annually.
Choosing a Great Communication & Media Studies School
The communications program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Communication & Media Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for communication & media studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Communication & Media Studies Rankings by Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in New Mexico list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Communication & Media Studies in New Mexico
The schools below may not offer all types of communications degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Central New Mexico Community College if you want to pursue a degree in communication & media studies. Located in the city of Albuquerque, CNM is a public college with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #631 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means CNM is a great college overall.
There were approximately 64 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at CNM in the most recent year we have data available.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in communication & media studies. NMSU Main Campus is a large public university located in the midsize suburb of Las Cruces. This university ranks 11th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were about 27 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at NMSU Main Campus in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus if you want to pursue a degree in communication & media studies. Located in the remote town of Portales, ENMU - Main Campus is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 12th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were roughly 35 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at ENMU - Main Campus in the most recent year we have data available. Those communication & media studies students who get their degree from Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus make $11,046 more than the standard communications student.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The communications program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Communication & Media Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for communication & media studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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