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2023 Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$7,364 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$61,137 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Education Graduate Certificate School for You

Education is the most popular major in New Mexico with 904 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in New Mexico to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for education students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best New Mexico Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Education

Our analysis found Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus to be the best value school for education students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in New Mexico. ENMU - Main Campus is a small public school located in the town of Portales.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at ENMU - Main Campus are $5,351 a year.

ENMU - Main Campus did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico list.

Full Education at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico list. Located in the suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public school with a fairly large student population.

NMSU Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $5,926 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

NMSU Main Campus also made our Best Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico list, coming in at #4.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend New Mexico Highlands University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico list. New Mexico Highlands University is a small public school located in the remote town of Las Vegas.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at New Mexico Highlands University are $7,698 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, New Mexico Highlands University is ranked #5 for overall quality for education in New Mexico.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico list. New Mexico Tech is a small public school located in the remote town of Socorro.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at New Mexico Tech are $8,717 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, New Mexico Tech is ranked #2 for overall quality for education in New Mexico.

Read full report on Education at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Education Graduate Certificate Schools in New Mexico list. UNM is a very large public school located in the city of Albuquerque.

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

Full Education at University of New Mexico - Main Campus Report

Best Value Education Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Education Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 12,019
Texas 11,415
Oklahoma 1,574

Education Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Educational Administration 45,458
Teacher Education Grade Specific 34,451
Special Education 25,158
General Education 21,189
Teacher Education Subject Specific 20,616
Curriculum & Instruction 19,784
Student Counseling 13,840
Instructional Media Design 8,387
Teaching English or French 4,743
Other Education 2,513
Multilingual Education 1,672
Educational Assessment 1,215
Education Philosophy 421
International Education 257
Teaching Assistants 20

Majors Similar to Education

Related Major Annual Graduates
Psychology 42,013
Social Sciences 22,292
Communication & Journalism 12,242
Library Science 5,929
History 4,391

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Horadrim.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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