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2023 Best Value Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,604 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$35,065 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, social sciences students earned 831 degrees and certificates from a New Mexico school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Mexico to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Mexico to see which bachelor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for social sciences students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Social Sciences Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Best New Mexico Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Social Sciences

Our analysis found University of New Mexico - Main Campus to be the best value school for social sciences students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in New Mexico. UNM is a fairly large public school located in the city of Albuquerque.

UNM undergraduate students pay an average of $7,906 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UNM did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico list.

Read full report on Social Sciences at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Out of the 2 schools in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized 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.

NMSU Main Campus also took the #4 spot in our Best Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico rankings.

Read full report on Social Sciences at New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Best Value Social Sciences Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 3,347
Texas 8,901
Oklahoma 1,373

Social Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Political Science & Government 49,282
Economics 49,055
Sociology 38,475
General Social Sciences 18,997
International Relations & National Security 14,306
Anthropology 11,415
Criminology 11,039
Geography & Cartography 8,526
Other Social Sciences 2,414
Urban Studies 1,507
Sociology & Anthropology 541
Archeology 339
Demography & Population Studies 88

Majors Similar to Social Sciences

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 327,871
Psychology 195,678
Communication & Journalism 120,571
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences 55,820
History 32,731

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 AndrГ© KГјnzelmann.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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