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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$6,521 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$59,048 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting Master's Degree School for You

Accounting is the #19 most popular major in New Mexico with 224 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. 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.

The Best Value Accounting Master's Degree Schools in New Mexico ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in New Mexico to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for accounting 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 Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for accounting majors pursuing a master's degree.

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

Our analysis found New Mexico State University - Main Campus to be the best value school for accounting students who want to pursue a master’s degree in New Mexico. 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 not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico list.

Full Accounting at New Mexico State University - Main Campus Report

Out of the 3 schools in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. UNM is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Albuquerque.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UNM are $7,115 a year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of the Southwest is a great value for accounting students working on their master’s degree. Located in the rural area of Hobbs, USW is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

USW graduate students pay an average of $22,500 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, USW is ranked #4 for overall quality for accounting in New Mexico.

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Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 7,220
Arizona 2,243
Oklahoma 1,069

Accounting is one of 21 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Pixabay.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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