2025 Best Secondary Education Schools in New Mexico
3Colleges in New Mexico
209Secondary Teaching Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in secondary education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #84 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the best for secondary education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 209 degrees in secondary education annually.
Your choice of secondary education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for secondary education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Secondary Education Schools in New Mexico ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Secondary Education in New Mexico
The schools below may not offer all types of secondary teaching degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in secondary education has to look into Western New Mexico University. Western New Mexico University is a small public university located in the town of Silver City. This university ranks 6th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were roughly 24 secondary education students who graduated with this degree at Western New Mexico University in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat University of New Mexico - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a degree in secondary education. Located in the large city of Albuquerque, UNM is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #608 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNM is a great university overall.
There were approximately 45 secondary education students who graduated with this degree at UNM in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in secondary education has to look into New Mexico State University - Main Campus. Located in the midsize suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 11th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were about 17 secondary education students who graduated with this degree at NMSU Main Campus in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of secondary education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for secondary education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
