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Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in New Mexico

2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in New Mexico

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$7,877 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$71,532 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering School for You

Electrical Engineering is the #29 most popular major in New Mexico with 150 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in New Mexico ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in New Mexico to see which ones offered the best value programs for EE 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best New Mexico Schools for Affordable Quality in Electrical Engineering

$7,301 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found New Mexico State University - Main Campus to be the best value school for electrical engineering students who want to pursue a degree in New Mexico. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Las Cruces.

NMSU Main Campus undergraduate students pay an average of $7,301 in in-state tuition and fees each year. On average, EE graduates from NMSU Main Campus take out $20,675 in student loans while working on their degree.

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$8,425 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best electrical engineering schools in New Mexico. Located in the remote town of Socorro, New Mexico Tech is a public college with a small student population.

New Mexico Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $8,425 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

New Mexico Tech also took the #2 spot in our Best Electrical Engineering Schools in New Mexico rankings.

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$7,906 Average Tuition & Fees

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 #3 on this year’s Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in New Mexico list. Located in the large city of Albuquerque, UNM is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UNM are $7,906 a year. EE majors at UNM take out an average of $28,666 in student loans while working on their egree.

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Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 2,384
Arizona 869
Oklahoma 256

One of 40 majors within the area of study, electrical engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to EE

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917
Biomedical Engineering 12,811

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 NASA.

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