2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Environmental Engineering in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Environmental Engineering is the 240th most popular major in the country with 2,759 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New Mexico, there were 11 general environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 general environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general environmental engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful general environmental engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Environmental Engineering in New Mexico

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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

#3 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s. This small school is located in Socorro, New Mexico, and it awarded 2 masters’s environmental engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate 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.

Full New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology General Environmental Engineering Report

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New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and it awarded 0 masters’s environmental engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Environmental Engineering at NMSU Main Campus

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Environmental Engineering in the Southwest Region
• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Environmental Engineering

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).
• 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

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic.