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Best Value Civil Engineering Schools in New Mexico

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2023 Best Value Civil Engineering Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,604 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,260 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Civil Engineering School for You

Civil Engineering is the #32 most popular major in New Mexico with 33 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Civil Engineering Schools in New Mexico ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in New Mexico to see which ones offered the best value programs for civil eng students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Civil Engineering Schools in New Mexico

Check out the civil eng programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best New Mexico Schools for Affordable Quality in Civil Engineering

$7,301 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named New Mexico State University - Main Campus the best value school in New Mexico for civil engineering students. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NMSU Main Campus are $7,301 a year.

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$7,906 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of New Mexico - Main Campus helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best civil engineering schools in New Mexico. UNM is a very large public school located in the large city of Albuquerque.

UNM undergraduate students pay an average of $7,906 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UNM not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Civil Engineering Schools in New Mexico list.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Colleges in the Southwest Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Texas 490
Arizona 88
Oklahoma 47

One of 39 majors within the area of study, civil engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252
General Engineering 3,548

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Master Sgt. Roger Parsons.

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