2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for an Associate in New Mexico” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Fine & Studio Arts is the 29th most popular major in the country with 39,860 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, fine and studio arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,847 and had an average of $28,316 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 190 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,100 and $26,943 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 52 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,995 and $14,826 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for an Associate in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fine and studio arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fine and studio 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 fine and studio arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Fine Arts Schools for an Associate in New Mexico

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

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in New Mexico

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$3,429 Average Net Price

$15,552 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central New Mexico Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for an Associate in New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s Fine Arts degrees to 23 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CNM, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Central New Mexico Community College is $3,429 for New Mexico Associate Degree Fine Arts students.

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#2

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development

Santa Fe, New Mexico

#2 in overall quality

$12,607 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for an Associate in New Mexico. This small school is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and it awarded 5 associates’s Fine Arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Institute of American Indian Arts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico” list. The yearly cost to attend Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development is $12,607 for New Mexico Associate Degree Fine Arts 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.

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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 Jorge Royan.

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