2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in New Mexico” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 9,938 people earned their degree in legal assistant/paralegal, making the major the 123rd most popular in the United States.

Across New Mexico, there were 37 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 24 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,995 and $14,826 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal assistant/paralegal programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the legal assistant/paralegal program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The paralegal 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 Paralegal Schools for an Associate in New Mexico”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in New Mexico.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal in New Mexico

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$3,429 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, Central New Mexico Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s paralegal degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

CNM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico” list. It costs about $3,429 for New Mexico Associate Degree Paralegal students per year to attend CNM.

Read full report on Legal Assistant/Paralegal at CNM

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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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