Albuquerque, NM (population: 535,923) has two entrepreneurship schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Northern New Mexico College, the highest ranked school in this group with an entrepreneurship program, has a total student population of 2,066. It is the 4938th highest ranked school in the USA and the 21st highest in the state of New Mexico (#1 is New Mexico State University-Main Campus).
Entrepreneurship students from Albuquerque schools who go on to become entrepreneurs, internet entrepreneurs, e-business entrepreneurs, e-commerce entrepreneurs, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 1,036,450 people working as business operations specialists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,960. Also, Business and financial operations employees make on average $65,900 per year and there are about 6,063,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Albuquerque area alone, there are 15,770 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $62,250. Business operations specialists in this area earn $71,760/yr and there are 2,230 employed.
Albuquerque lies in Bernalillo county, which is one of the 23 counties in New Mexico. Overall, the Albuquerque area has 381,870 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $19.31/hr average worker wage, and a $40,170 average annual salary. Thus, about 5.830 out of every 1000 jobs in Albuquerque are held by business operations specialists, and 41.287/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.
Of the 2 entrepreneurship schools with a 100-mile radius of Albuquerque, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Santa Fe Community College comes out as the most expensive ($10,016/yr) for entrepreneurship students, with Northern New Mexico College as the lowest, reported at only $5,623/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Albuquerque |
| Albuequerque | NM | - | 1 | 4.18669 | 13 | 3.0 miles |
| Rio Rancho | NM | 85,837 | 1 | 10.6625 | 12 | 10.6 miles |
| Santa Fe | NM | 74,019 | 6 | 20.0822 | 127 | 54.1 miles |
| Grants | NM | - | 1 | 9.85236 | 40 | 69.7 miles |