Nursing at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

If you plan to study nursing, take a look at what University of New Mexico - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has a total student population of 22,311.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Nursing section at the bottom of this page.

UNM Nursing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• Master’s Degree in Nursing

UNM Nursing Rankings

The nursing major at UNM is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Nursing. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 18 students who received their doctoral degrees in nursing, making the school the #163 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Nursing Student Demographics at UNM

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the nursing majors at University of New Mexico - Main Campus.

UNM Nursing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of nursing bachelor's degrees went to men and 82% went to women. The typical nursing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at UNM since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 25% more racial-ethnic minorities in its nursing bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of New Mexico - Main Campus with a bachelor's in nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	19
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	205
White	138
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	41

UNM Nursing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 12% of nursing master's degrees went to men and 88% went to women.

In the nursing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 59% of degree recipients. That is 20% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of New Mexico - Main Campus with a master's in nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	24
White	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within Nursing

The following nursing concentations are available at University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of New Mexico - Main Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Registered Nursing	489
Nursing Practice	13
Nursing Science	6

Related Majors

Careers That Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in nursing can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NM, the home state for University of New Mexico - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in NM	Average Salary in NM
Registered Nurses	16,730	$71,730
Medical and Health Services Managers	1,640	$122,650
Nurse Practitioners	980	$109,810
Nurse Midwives	110	$97,930
Nursing Instructors and Professors	80	$64,660

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By PerryPlanet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.