2021 Best Colleges in New Mexico for Students from Canada

International students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Canadian Students in New Mexico ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the best for Canadian students in New Mexico. Our ranking is based on several objective factors, including the school's overall quality and the total number of international students at the school. We steer clear of subjective measures since they don't give a clear picture when determining how one school compares to another.

Learn more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in New Mexico for Students from Canada

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, NM

$25,243 Avg Tuition & Fees

4.5% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named University of New Mexico - Main Campus the best school for Canadian students in New Mexico working on their bachelor’s degree. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 4,294 students in 2020-2021.

Around 4.5% of the total student population at the school is international. The top three countries sending students to study at UNM are China, India, and Nepal.

Full University of New Mexico - Main Campus Report

2

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, NM

$23,767 Avg Tuition & Fees

5.4% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at New Mexico State University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Canadian students in New Mexico. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the fairly large public school handed out 2,425 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 5.4% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at NMSU Main Campus come from such countries as Kuwait, Mexico, and India.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.