2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Liberal Arts General Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 1st of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 559,661 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,786 and had an average of $16,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 8,011 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,995 and $14,630 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,864 and $37,250 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in liberal arts general studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great liberal arts general studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the liberal arts general studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in New Mexico (With Aid)

#1

New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Las Cruces, New Mexico

$18,275 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid list. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 1 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NMSU Main Campus, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at New Mexico State University - Main Campus are $18,275.

Read more about Liberal Arts General Studies at NMSU Main Campus

#2

St. John's College

Santa Fe, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$28,612 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St. John’s College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Liberal Arts Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid. Santa Fe, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s liberal arts degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

St. John’s did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Liberal Arts General Studies Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at St. John’s are $28,612, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at St. John’s

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in the Southwest Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies (With Aid)

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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