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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$7,906 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$19,139 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts School for You

With 43 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, visual and performing arts is the #17 most popular major in New Mexico.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Mexico ranking.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

Check out the visual and performing arts programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Visual & Performing Arts School

$7,906 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of New Mexico - Main Campus the best value school in New Mexico for visual and performing arts 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 Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Mexico rankings.

Full Visual & Performing Arts at University of New Mexico - Main Campus Report

Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 254
Texas 1,011
Oklahoma 126

Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Music 7,675
Fine & Studio Arts 3,224
Design & Applied Arts 1,979
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 1,704
Drama & Theater Arts 1,699
Arts & Media Management 1,184
General Visual & Performing Arts 390
Dance 257
Other Visual Art 254
Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry 13

Related Major Annual Graduates
Theology & Religious Vocations 17,287
English Language & Literature 9,566
Foreign Languages & Linguistics 4,163
Philosophy & Religious Studies 3,136
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities 2,680

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 Bonnielou2013.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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