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2023 Best Value General Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$6,521 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$63,040 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Biology Doctor's Degree School for You

General Biology is the #18 most popular major in New Mexico with 62 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value General Biology Doctor's Degree Schools in New Mexico ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Mexico to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for biology students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value General Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Biology Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best New Mexico Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in General Biology

Our 2023 rankings named New Mexico State University - Main Campus the best value school in New Mexico for general biology students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at NMSU Main Campus are $5,926 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, NMSU Main Campus is ranked #3 for overall quality for biology in New Mexico.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico list. UNM is a very large public school located in the large city of Albuquerque.

UNM graduate students pay an average of $7,115 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UNM also made our Best General Biology Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on General Biology at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Best Value General Biology Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value General Biology Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 871
Arizona 170
Oklahoma 20

General Biology is one of 14 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology 3,221
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 2,488
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics 2,290
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 1,964
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other) 1,922

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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