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Best Nursing Colleges in New Mexico
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This ranking scores 15 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.
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Nursing programs in New Mexico ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, NM
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New Mexico State University-Grants
Grants, NM
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New Mexico Junior College
Hobbs, NM
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New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas, NM · 1,451 students · Public
New Mexico State University-Grants
Grants, NM · 356 students · Public
New Mexico Junior College
Hobbs, NM · 2,175 students · Public
University of New Mexico-Valencia County Campus
Los Lunas, NM · 525 students · Public
Luna Community College
Las Vegas, NM · 423 students · Public
Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus
Portales, NM · 3,357 students · Public
University of New Mexico-Main Campus
Albuquerque, NM · 17,244 students · Public
Southeast New Mexico College
Carlsbad, NM · 469 students · Public
University of New Mexico-Los Alamos Campus
Los Alamos, NM · 218 students · Public
Western New Mexico University
Silver City, NM · 2,026 students · Public
University of New Mexico-Gallup Campus
Gallup, NM · 808 students · Public
New Mexico State University-Main Campus
Las Cruces, NM · 11,946 students · Public
New Mexico State University-Alamogordo
Alamogordo, NM · 591 students · Public
New Mexico State University-Dona Ana
Las Cruces, NM · 5,177 students · Public
Northern New Mexico College
Espanola, NM · 926 students · Public
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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.
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