2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Mexico
3Colleges in New Mexico
660Visual & Performing Arts Degrees Awarded
$27,860Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in visual & performing arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #10 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New Mexico to determine which ones were the best for visual & performing arts students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 660 degrees in visual & performing arts to qualified students.
The visual & performing arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts rankings. For our Best Overall Visual & Performing Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Mexico list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts in New Mexico
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the visual & performing arts degree levels they offer.
Top New Mexico Schools in Visual & Performing Arts
Central New Mexico Community College is a great option for students pursuing a degree in visual & performing arts. CNM is a fairly large public college located in the large city of Albuquerque. This college ranks 2nd out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were about 147 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at CNM in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in visual & performing arts has to look into University of New Mexico - Main Campus. Located in the city of Albuquerque, UNM is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #608 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNM is a great university overall.
There were approximately 245 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at UNM in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the visual & performing arts program make an average of $19,898 in the first couple years of working.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 11th out of 24 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Mexico.
There were about 75 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at NMSU Main Campus in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the visual & performing arts program state that they receive average early career wages of $22,721.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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The visual & performing arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts rankings. For our Best Overall Visual & Performing Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
