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New Mexico State University-Grants

Grants, NM · 7 reportable field-and-credential outcomes

MODELED SCENARIO · Uncertain payoff

Payoff needs your actual price

ROI withheld because the institution-wide price is missing, below the reliability floor or produces an extreme price-sensitive scenario.

Available federal data is not complete enough for a confident payoff classification.

Modeled economic break-even
Not availableModeled 10-year ROI
$47,377Observed earnings · year 5
Economic ROI includes direct price and earnings forgone during study · $45,000 comparison earnings · values held flat · see the formula
PAYOFF CURVE

Not enough reliable price data to model ROI.

FEDERAL COST DATA

Four ways to read college price.

Annual college-wide figures from the current College Scorecard release. Average net price covers full-time, first-time undergraduates receiving federal aid; public-college figures use in-state students. Program tuition and individual aid offers may differ.

Published in-state tuition$2,136
Sticker price
Published out-of-state tuition$4,272
Sticker price
Average net price$68
Title IV student average
Cost of attendance$8,514
Tuition + living budget
PRICE SOURCECollege reported · annual amount · federal dataset
OBSERVED FEDERAL MEASURES

Cost, debt, completion and earnings context

$68Average net price / year
$8,514Cost of attendance
$17,095Median federal student debt · completer borrowers
$181/moPublished 10-year payment estimate
$47,377Median earnings · year 5 after completion
26.2%Completion rate
Not availableAdmission rate
356Student size

Institution debt covers federal student-loan borrowers who completed. Parent PLUS and private loans are excluded; missing and privacy-suppressed values remain unavailable.

PRICE BY FAMILY INCOME

Average net price is not one price

Federal averages for aided students in each family-income band. Your aid offer can differ.

$0–30k$248
$30–48kNot available
$48–75k$846
$75–110kNot available
$110k+Not available
LONGER-TERM CONTEXT

What happens beyond the first earnings measure

Year 5$47,377
Year 6$32,960
Year 10$39,067
Full-time retention
58.2%
Part-time retention
26.7%
Completion within 200% of normal time
24.2%

Earnings timepoints may use different historical cohorts and should not be read as one group’s guaranteed salary growth.

NATIONAL CONTEXT

How this college compares

Percentiles compare this institution with currently operating colleges that report the same federal measure.

55thEarnings percentile
8thCompletion percentile
WHAT STANDS OUT

A faster read on this college

These summaries use only reportable field-and-credential records at this institution. They do not fill privacy-suppressed outcomes.

$39,985Median year-4 earnings across reportable program categories
$9,750Median federal debt across categories that report debt
29%Of earnings-reporting categories above their same-field national benchmark
EARNINGS PATH

Reported earnings over time

$38,119Year 1
$54,874Year 4
$47,377Year 5

Separate federal cohorts may underlie different measurement years.

PROGRAM PAYOFF SPREAD

The college average is not the whole story.

Observed earnings vary substantially by field and credential at the same institution.

1Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions · Associate's Degree$68,2912Data Processing · Associate's Degree$53,2473Business/Commerce, General · Associate's Degree$42,7734Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities · Associate's Degree$39,9855Precision Metal Working · Associate's Degree$39,2996Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods · Associate's Degree$37,5147Criminal Justice and Corrections · Associate's Degree$35,798

Observed year-4 earnings · compare like fields and credentials before deciding

BUILD A REAL SHORTLIST

Comparable colleges in NM

Currently operating public institutions with the closest combination of annual net price and observed year-5 earnings. Similarity is descriptive—not a quality ranking.

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Eastern New Mexico University Ruidoso Branch Community College

Annual net price
$2,042
Observed earnings · year 5
$46,025
Modeled 10-year ROI
-95%
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Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus

Annual net price
$3,645
Observed earnings · year 5
$46,025
Modeled 10-year ROI
-95%
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Las Cruces, NM

New Mexico State University-Dona Ana

Annual net price
$6,048
Observed earnings · year 5
$47,377
Modeled 10-year ROI
-88%
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Portales, NM

Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus

Annual net price
$4,904
Observed earnings · year 5
$46,025
Modeled 10-year ROI
-95%
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ALL REPORTABLE PROGRAM CATEGORIES

Explore exact field-and-credential outcomes

Federal fieldCredentialEarnings, year 4Federal debt
Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment ProfessionsAssociate's Degree$68,291$9,995
Data ProcessingAssociate's Degree$53,247$9,750
Business/Commerce, GeneralAssociate's Degree$42,773$7,571
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and HumanitiesAssociate's Degree$39,985$10,497
Precision Metal WorkingAssociate's Degree$39,299Not available
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and MethodsAssociate's Degree$37,514Not available
Criminal Justice and CorrectionsAssociate's Degree$35,798$7,425

Earnings, price, completion and enrollment are observed federal measures. ROI, payoff and break-even are modeled scenarios built from those measures and fixed assumptions. College payoff is not the payoff of every degree at this school; use the program table for a more precise comparison.