2022 Best Value Curriculum 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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Curriculum Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Curriculum & Instruction is the 57th most popular major in the country with 18,195 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, curriculum and instruction graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,708 and had an average of $36,052 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,035 curriculum and instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,000 and $40,179 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Curriculum Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Curriculum Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Curriculum 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

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Curriculum Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Alamogordo landed the #1 spot on the list. New Mexico State University - Alamogordo is located in Alamogordo, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 associates’s curriculum degrees to qualified students.

NMSU Alamogordo also took the #1 spot in our “Best Curriculum & Instruction Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend NMSU Alamogordo is $5,693 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Curriculum students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full New Mexico State University - Alamogordo Curriculum & Instruction Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Curriculum & Instruction

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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