2023 Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in New Mexico
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$30,832
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
With 556,813 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, liberal arts / sciences and humanities is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Mexico, there were 6,958 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,069 and $13,490 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality liberal arts / sciences and humanities programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the liberal arts / sciences and humanities program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 “Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico master’s degree vets studying liberal arts / sciences & humanities.
Top 1 Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in New Mexico
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St. John’s College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in New Mexico for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities for a Master’s. St. John’s is a private not-for-profit institution located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The school has a small population, and it awarded 19 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at St. John’s, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking.According to our most recent data, St. John’s College supports 355 students, and 11 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 10 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $18,148. To help with additional expenses, 6 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
[Read full report on veteran student life at St. John’s College]](/colleges/st-johns-college-new-mexico/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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