2023 Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Natural Resources & Conservation School for You

In 2020-2021, 91 degrees and certificates were awarded to natural resources and conservation students who went to a New Mexico college or university. This makes it the #28 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Natural Resources & Conservation Schools in New Mexico ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Check out the natural resources and conservation programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Natural Resources & Conservation School

#1

New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Las Cruces, NM

39 Degrees

#13 in Quality in New Mexico

$7,301 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named New Mexico State University - Main Campus the best value school in New Mexico for natural resources and conservation students. Located in the suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NMSU Main Campus are $7,301 a year. The average amount in student loans that natural resources and conservation majors at NMSU Main Campus take out is $20,500.

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Lynn Betts.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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