With all of the options student athletes 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 Best Colleges for Division I Men's Basketball in New Mexico ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the best for D1 Men's Basketball athletes in New Mexico. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the athletic competitiveness of the school and the school's overall quality. This means that a school must provide students with a great education in addition to having a good sports team if it wants to rank well.
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Top Colleges in New Mexico for D1 Men's Basketball athletes in New Mexico
Our 2023 rankings named New Mexico State University - Main Campus the best school for D1 Men’s Basketball athletes in New Mexico working on their bachelor’s degree. New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a fairly large public school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 2,443 bachelor’s degrees in .
On the financial side of things, the D1 Men’s Basketball team at NMSU Main Campus made $3,557,618 in revenue. The academic progress rate of the team is 972.
NMSU Main Campus did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our overall quality list.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. This large public school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 3,601 bachelor’s degrees in .
On the financial side of things, the D1 Men’s Basketball team at UNM made $4,273,228 in revenue. The team members aren’t slouches in the classroom either, since the team academic progress rate is an excellent 995.
UNM also took the #3 spot in our overall quality rankings.
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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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
