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Best Value Area Studies Schools in New Mexico

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2023 Best Value Area Studies Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$7,906 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$24,975 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Area Studies School for You

With 20 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, area studies is the #47 most popular major in New Mexico.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Area Studies Schools in New Mexico to help you in your search for the best school for you.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

Check out the area studies programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Area Studies School

$7,906 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of New Mexico - Main Campus the best value school in New Mexico for area studies students. UNM is a very large public school located in the city of Albuquerque.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UNM are $7,906 per year.

UNM also took the #3 spot in our Best Area Studies Schools in New Mexico rankings.

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Best Value Area Studies Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 611
Arizona 30
Oklahoma 8

Area Studies is one of 2 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Area Studies

Related Major Annual Graduates
Ethnic Studies 1,081
Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies (Other) 5

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Karl Udo Gerth.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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