2022 Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Curriculum & Instruction is the 46th most popular major in the country with 18,195 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,035 curriculum and instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 curriculum and instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great curriculum and instruction programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the curriculum and instruction program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The curriculum & instruction 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 “Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region”.

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Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Curriculum & Instruction in the Southwest Region

#1

New Mexico State University - Alamogordo

Alamogordo, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$5,693 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Alamogordo. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Curriculum & Instruction Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. New Mexico State University - Alamogordo is a small school located in Alamogordo, New Mexico that handed out 6 associates’s curriculum and instruction degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree curriculum & instruction students list, NMSU Alamogordo has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Curriculum & Instruction Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $5,693 for southwest region associate degree curriculum & instruction students per year to attend New Mexico State University - Alamogordo.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Curriculum & Instruction at NMSU Alamogordo

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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