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Child Development Schools
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Mesalands Community College
New Mexico State University-Dona Ana
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Child Development Schools in New Mexico
New Mexico contains three schools that offer child development programs. Mesalands Community College, the highest-ranking child development school in NM, has a total student population of 991 and is the 5063rd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 3 child development schools in New Mexico, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Mesalands Community College comes out as the most expensive ($12,206/yr), with San Juan College as the lowest recorded at only $5,292/yr.
Child Development students from New Mexico schools who go on to become child development specialists, child psychologists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 277,670 people working as child, family, and school social workers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $43,540. Also, Preschool teachers make on average $27,450 per year and there are about 389,660 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the New Mexico alone, there are 2,010 employed preschool teachers earning an average yearly salary of $25,690. Child, family, and school social workers in this state earn $35,780/yr and there are 2,290 employed.
Also, within the child development schools in New Mexico, the average student population is 2,774 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from child development, there are 1598 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,262 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $1,963, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
New Mexico Interesting Facts
- Santa Fe is the highest capital city in the United States at 7,000 feet above sea level.
- The province that was once Spanish New Mexico included all of present day New Mexico, most of Colorado and Arizona, and slices of Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. The Original American Territory of New Mexico that congress created in 1850 included all of New Mexico and Arizona plus parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. The boundaries of present day New Mexico were drawn by congress in 1863 but New Mexico didn't become a state until 1912.
- Each October Albuquerque hosts the world's largest international hot air balloon fiesta.
- Las Cruces makes the world's largest enchilada the first weekend in October at the "Whole Enchilada Fiesta".
- Lakes and Rivers make up only .002% of the state's total surface area. The lowest water-to-land ratio of all 50 states. Most of New Mexico's lakes are man-made reservoirs. A dam on the Rio Grande formed the Elephant Butte Reservoir the state's largest lake.
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