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Best Value Accounting Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

2023 Best Value Accounting Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$1,936 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$31,137 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting Associate Degree School for You

Accounting is the #19 most popular major in New Mexico with 224 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Accounting Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in New Mexico to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for accounting students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best New Mexico Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Accounting

Our 2023 rankings named Central New Mexico Community College the best value school in New Mexico for accounting students working on their associate degree. Located in the city of Albuquerque, CNM is a public college with a fairly large student population.

CNM undergraduate students pay an average of $1,684 in in-state tuition and fees each year. On average, accounting graduates from CNM take out $12,842 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

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#2

San Juan College

Farmington, NM

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Juan College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Accounting Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico list. Located in the city of Farmington, SJC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at SJC are $1,618 a year.

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The excellent associate degree programs at Santa Fe Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value accounting schools in New Mexico. Located in the suburb of Santa Fe, SFCC is a public college with a small student population.

SFCC undergraduate students pay an average of $2,505 in in-state tuition and fees each year. On average, accounting graduates from SFCC take out $12,298 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

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Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 7,220
Arizona 2,243
Oklahoma 1,069

Accounting is one of 21 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Pixabay.

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