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2023 Best Value Nursing Master's Degree Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$6,068 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$98,140 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Master's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, nursing students earned 106 degrees and certificates from a New Mexico school, making the subject the 9th in the state.

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 Nursing Master's Degree Schools in New Mexico to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in New Mexico to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for nursing 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 Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico

Check out the nursing master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best New Mexico Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Nursing

Our 2023 rankings named Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus the best value school in New Mexico for nursing students working on their master’s degree. ENMU - Main Campus is a small public school located in the remote town of Portales.

ENMU - Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $5,351 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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

Full Nursing at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus Report

#2

Western New Mexico University

Silver City, NM

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Western New Mexico University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico list. Western New Mexico University is a small public school located in the remote town of Silver City.

Western New Mexico University graduate students pay an average of $5,163 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a great value for nursing students working on their master’s degree. UNM is a very large public school located in the city of Albuquerque.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNM are $7,115 per year.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a great value for nursing students working on their master’s degree. Located in the suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public college with a large student population.

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

NMSU Main Campus did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico list.

Full Nursing at New Mexico State University - Main Campus Report

Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 3,662
Arizona 3,385
Oklahoma 165

One of 29 majors within the area of study, nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Public Health 19,473
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences 16,952

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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 Aleksahgabrielle.

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