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2023 Most Popular Nursing Schools in New Mexico

4 Colleges
$64,717 Avg Salary
$24,800 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Nursing 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 Most Popular Nursing 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 were the most popular programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Nursing program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for nursing majors pursuing a .

Our analysis found University of New Mexico - Main Campus to be the most popular school for nursing students who want to pursue a degree in New Mexico. UNM is a very large public school located in the large city of Albuquerque.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a great place for nursing students. Located in the midsize suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public college with a large student population.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus is a great place for nursing students. ENMU - Main Campus is a small public school located in the remote town of Portales.

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#4

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 #4 on this year’s Most Popular Nursing Schools in New Mexico list. Western New Mexico University is a small public school located in the town of Silver City.

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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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