2025 Best General Physical Sciences Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico
3
Colleges in New Mexico
67
Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in
general physical sciences, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #43 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Physical Sciences Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 67 associate degrees in general physical sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Physical Sciences School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of general physical sciences for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality physical science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general physical sciences students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of general physical sciences students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt general physical sciences students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general physical sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general physical sciences students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank General Physical Sciences Schools
The physical science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Physical Sciences Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico.