2025 Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

If you pursue a associate degree in business administration & management, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #3 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 417 associate degrees in business administration & management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Business Administration & Management School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of business administration & management for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality business administration program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to business administration & management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of business administration & management students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for business administration & management to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business administration & management related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business administration & management students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The business administration school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Business Administration & Management in New Mexico

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in business administration & management.

Top New Mexico Schools for an Associate in Business Administration

1

Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM

215 Annual Graduates

$37,010 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in an associate degree in business administration & management needs to check out Central New Mexico Community College. CNM is a large public college located in the city of Albuquerque.

Those business administration & management students who get their associate degree from Central New Mexico Community College earn $6,000 more than the typical business administration grad.

More information about a associate in business administration & management from Central New Mexico Community College

2

San Juan College
Farmington, NM

49 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat San Juan College if you want to pursue an associate degree in business administration & management. Located in the rural area of Farmington, SJC is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a associate in business administration & management from San Juan College

3

Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe, NM

17 Annual Graduates

$39,834 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in business administration & management has to check out Santa Fe Community College. Located in the rural area of Santa Fe, SFCC is a public college with a small student population.

Associate recipients from the business administration & management major at Santa Fe Community College get $8,824 above the typical graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a associate in business administration & management from Santa Fe Community College

4

Western New Mexico University
Silver City, NM

25 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in an associate degree in business administration & management has to take a look at Western New Mexico University. Western New Mexico University is a small public university located in the remote town of Silver City.More information about a associate in business administration & management from Western New Mexico University

5

University of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus
Los Alamos, NM

12 Annual Graduates

$25,698 Median Starting Salary

Located in the town of Los Alamos, UNM Los Alamos is a public university with a fairly small student population.

Associate graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make an average of $25,698 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a associate in business administration & management from University of New Mexico - Los Alamos Campus

6

University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus
Gallup, NM

27 Annual Graduates

$25,698 Median Starting Salary

UNM Gallup is a small public university located in the town of Gallup.

Associate graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make about $25,698 in their early career salary.

More information about a associate in business administration & management from University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	200	3,318
Arizona	169	3,198
Oklahoma	136	782

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Business Administration & Management Related Rankings by Major

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Business Administration & Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Business Administration Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	405
Office Administration	12

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Business/Commerce	67
Accounting	54
Business Support & Assistant Services	21
Hospitality Management	18
Construction Management	10
Management Information Systems	4
Marketing	2

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.