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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Mechanical Engineering is the 14th most popular major in the country with 46,178 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New Mexico, there were 280 general mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 54 general mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general mechanical engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful general mechanical engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico master’s degree general mechanical engineering students.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Mechanical Engineering in New Mexico

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school handed out 27 diplomas to qualified masters’s general mechanical engineering students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Mechanical Engineering at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

2

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico

#3 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s list. Located in Socorro, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 16 degrees to qualified masters’s general mechanical engineering students 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 Mechanical Engineering Report

3

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

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Mexico for a Master’s. This fairly large school is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and it awarded 11 masters’s general mechanical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Mechanical Engineering in the Southwest Region
• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Mechanical 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 Michel Villeneuve.