2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in New Mexico (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Fine Arts is the 67th most popular major in the country with 12,032 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across New Mexico, there were 46 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,108 and $24,162 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent fine arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the fine arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in New Mexico (With Aid)

#1

Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development

Santa Fe, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$12,607 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Mexico For Those Getting Aid list. Santa Fe, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s fine arts degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Institute of American Indian Arts, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” ranking. It costs about $12,607 for New Mexico Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students with aid per year to attend Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Fine Arts at Institute of American Indian Arts

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts (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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

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