2025 Best General Engineering Schools in New Mexico
3Colleges in New Mexico
122Engineering Degrees Awarded
$77,930Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in general engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #79 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Engineering Schools in New Mexico ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 122 degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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.
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Best Schools for General Engineering in New Mexico
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It's difficult to beat University of New Mexico - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a degree in general engineering. Located in the city of Albuquerque, UNM is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #608 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNM is a great university overall.
There were roughly 26 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UNM in the most recent year we have data available.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general engineering. Located in the 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 roughly 22 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at NMSU Main Campus in the most recent data year.
Central New Mexico Community College is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in general engineering. CNM is a large public college located in the large city of Albuquerque. This college ranks 2nd out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were about 42 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at CNM in the most recent year we have data available.
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 general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
