El Paso, TX (population: 631,862) has eight business and finance schools within its city limits. Computer Career Center, the highest ranked school in the city with a business and finance program, has a total student population of 994. It is the 1168th highest ranked school in the USA and the 53rd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Business and Finance students from El Paso schools who go on to become business and finance professionals, event planners, web developers, SEOs, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 6,063,670 people working as business and financial operations employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,900. Also, Wholesale and retail buyers make on average $55,480 per year and there are about 116,900 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the El Paso area alone, there are 180 employed wholesale and retail buyers earning an average salary of $50,110. Business and financial operations employees in this area earn $54,660/yr and there are 9,560 employed.
El Paso lies in El Paso county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the El Paso area has 269,250 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.0% unemployment rate, $16.37/hr average worker wage, and a $34,050 average annual salary. Thus, about 35.503 out of every 1000 jobs in El Paso are held by business and financial operations employees, and 0.667/1000 are held by wholesale and retail buyers.
Of the 8 business and finance schools in El Paso, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Career Centers of Texas-El Paso comes out as the most expensive ($22,014/yr) for business and finance students, with El Paso Community College as the lowest, reported at only $3,368/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from El Paso |
| Las Cruces | NM | 95,663 | 3 | 29.6043 | 193 | 38.7 miles |
| Alamogordo | NM | - | 2 | 15.3602 | 50 | 77.8 miles |