2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in New Mexico

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Theater Schools for an Associate in New Mexico” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Theater Arts is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across New Mexico, there were 33 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,995 and $14,826 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality theater arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the theater arts 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.

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Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in New Mexico

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Theater Arts 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 Theater 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. CNM is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 5 associates’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CNM, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking. It costs about $3,429 for New Mexico Associate Degree Theater students per year to attend Central New Mexico Community College.

Read full report on Theater Arts 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.

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