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Best Business Colleges in New Mexico

By David Krug, Co-Founder, CollegeRanker · Updated 2026-05-31 · 16 schools · Agent Insights
16
Schools Analyzed
$39,966
Avg. Earnings (10yr)
29%
Avg. Graduation Rate
$8,580
Avg. Net Price

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This ranking scores 16 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.

Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.

The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.

Quick Numbers

Schools ranked 16
Avg. earnings at 10yr $39,966
Avg. graduation rate 29%
Avg. net price $8,580
Avg. median debt $16,952

How We Ranked

Business programs in New Mexico ranked by outcomes and program concentration

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Earnings vs. Cost

Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.

$15K$68K$120K$0$50KNET PRICENew MexicoWestern NewNew MexicoUniversity ofNew Mexico

Graduation Rates

Longer bars = higher graduation rate.

New Mexico Highlands Uni…26%Western New Mexico Unive…34%New Mexico State Univers…25%University of New Mexico…54%New Mexico State Univers…16%New Mexico State Univers…54%Eastern New Mexico Unive…42%Luna Community College33%University of New Mexico…20%University of New Mexico…27%Northern New Mexico Coll…30%Southeast New Mexico Col…26%University of the Southw…23%University of New Mexico…19%New Mexico State Univers…17%Institute of American In…20%

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Full Rankings

#1

New Mexico Highlands University

Las Vegas, NM · 1,451 students · Public

26% graduate $45,937 earnings
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#2

Western New Mexico University

Silver City, NM · 2,026 students · Public

34% graduate $39,095 earnings
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#3

New Mexico State University-Grants

Grants, NM · 356 students · Public

25% graduate $39,067 earnings
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#4

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

Albuquerque, NM · 17,244 students · Public

95% accepted 54% graduate $44,792 earnings
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#5

New Mexico State University-Alamogordo

Alamogordo, NM · 591 students · Public

16% graduate $39,067 earnings
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#6

New Mexico State University-Main Campus

Las Cruces, NM · 11,946 students · Public

89% accepted 54% graduate $39,067 earnings
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#7

Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus

Portales, NM · 3,357 students · Public

92% accepted 42% graduate $38,550 earnings
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#8

Luna Community College

Las Vegas, NM · 423 students · Public

33% graduate $32,461 earnings
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#9

University of New Mexico-Valencia County Campus

Los Lunas, NM · 525 students · Public

20% graduate $44,792 earnings
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#10

University of New Mexico-Los Alamos Campus

Los Alamos, NM · 218 students · Public

27% graduate $44,792 earnings
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#11

Northern New Mexico College

Espanola, NM · 926 students · Public

30% graduate $38,112 earnings
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#12

Southeast New Mexico College

Carlsbad, NM · 469 students · Public

26% graduate
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#13

University of the Southwest

Hobbs, NM · 346 students · Private nonprofit

23% graduate $45,389 earnings
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#14

University of New Mexico-Gallup Campus

Gallup, NM · 808 students · Public

19% graduate $44,792 earnings
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#15

New Mexico State University-Dona Ana

Las Cruces, NM · 5,177 students · Public

17% graduate $39,067 earnings
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#16

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development

Santa Fe, NM · 334 students · Public

97% accepted 20% graduate $24,505 earnings
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Sources & Citations

[1]

U.S. Department of Education. College Scorecard Data. Federal Student Aid, National Center for Education Statistics.

[2]

National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

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David Krug

Co-Founder, CollegeRanker

David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.