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Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$3,503 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$17,822 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts Associate Degree School for You

With 155 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, fine and studio arts is the #27 most popular major in New Mexico.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in New Mexico to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for Fine Arts 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 Fine & Studio Arts

Our 2023 rankings named Central New Mexico Community College the best value school in New Mexico for fine and studio arts students working on their associate degree. Located in the large 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.

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The excellent associate degree programs at Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value fine and studio arts schools in New Mexico. Located in the rural area of Santa Fe, Institute of American Indian Arts is a public school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Institute of American Indian Arts are $5,321 per year.

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Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 1,939
Arizona 479
Oklahoma 234

Fine & Studio Arts is one of 10 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Music 25,910
Drama & Theater Arts 17,341
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 Jorge Royan.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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