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Best Colleges in New Mexico

The strongest colleges and universities in New Mexico, ranked by graduation rate and selectivity, with verified acceptance rates, net price, and test scores for this admissions cycle.

How this list is ranked

The strongest colleges and universities in New Mexico, ranked by graduation rate and selectivity, with verified acceptance rates, net price, and test scores for this admissions cycle.

Schools on this list 40
Source Federal data, same records as every school page

Admit rate, net price, and SAT in the table are for context. Rank order follows the method above, not those columns.

Rank School Admit Net price SAT
1 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM 44% $9,873 1080-1310 See record
2 New Mexico State University-Main Campus Las Cruces, NM 89% $8,889 870-1110 See record
3 St. John's College Santa Fe, NM 53% $26,674 1290-1460 See record
4 University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque, NM 95% $15,489 890-1170 See record
5 Brookline College-Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM - $37,459 - See record
6 Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus Portales, NM 92% $4,904 830-1060 See record
7 Western New Mexico University Silver City, NM - $8,522 - See record
8 Northern New Mexico College Espanola, NM - $7,276 - See record
9 New Mexico Highlands University Las Vegas, NM - $14,838 - See record
10 University of the Southwest Hobbs, NM - $16,927 - See record
11 Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development Santa Fe, NM 97% $12,570 - See record
12 Navajo Technical University Crownpoint, NM - $5,338 - See record
13 New Mexico Military Institute Roswell, NM 53% $4,571 - See record
14 A Better U Beauty Barber Academy Albuquerque, NM - $20,249 - See record
15 Aveda Institute-New Mexico Albuquerque, NM - $15,607 - See record
16 Avenue Academy A Cosmetology Institute Albuquerque, NM - $13,175 - See record
17 Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine Las Cruces, NM - - - See record
18 Carrington College-Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM - $49,030 - See record
19 Central New Mexico Community College Albuquerque, NM - $4,621 - See record
20 Clovis Community College Clovis, NM - $3,230 - See record
21 Eastern New Mexico University Ruidoso Branch Community College Ruidoso, NM - $2,042 - See record
22 Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus Roswell, NM - $3,645 - See record
23 Glitz School of Cosmetology Las Cruces, NM - $14,378 - See record
24 Glitz School of Cosmetology - Santa Fe Campus Santa Fe, NM - $5,184 - See record
25 Luna Community College Las Vegas, NM - $4,595 - See record
26 Mesalands Community College Tucumcari, NM - $9,445 - See record
27 New Mexico Junior College Hobbs, NM - $6,524 - See record
28 New Mexico State University-Alamogordo Alamogordo, NM - $7,369 - See record
29 New Mexico State University-Dona Ana Las Cruces, NM - $6,048 - See record
30 New Mexico State University-Grants Grants, NM - $68 - See record
31 Olympian Academy of Cosmetology LAS CRUCES, NM - $20,793 - See record
32 Paul Mitchell the School-Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM - $15,634 - See record
33 Pima Medical Institute-Albuquerque Albuquerque, NM - $21,084 - See record
34 San Juan College Farmington, NM - $5,769 - See record
35 Santa Fe Community College Santa Fe, NM - $11,067 - See record
36 Southeast New Mexico College Carlsbad, NM - $5,734 - See record
37 Southwest University of Naprapathic Medicine Santa Fe, NM - - - See record
38 Southwestern College Santa Fe, NM - - - See record
39 Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute Albuquerque, NM - $5,181 - See record
40 University of New Mexico-Gallup Campus Gallup, NM - $4,868 - See record