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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$1,858 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,556 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree School for You

In 2021-2022, personal & culinary services students earned 1,065 degrees and certificates from a New Mexico school, making the subject the 2nd in the state.

It's not easy to decide which trade school program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent.

The Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree School

Our analysis found Central New Mexico Community College to be the best value school for personal & culinary services students who want to pursue a associate degree in New Mexico. Located in the city of Albuquerque, CNM is a public college with a large student population.

CNM undergraduate students pay an average of $1,858 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

CNM did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Personal & Culinary Services Associate Degree Trade Schools in New Mexico list.

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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 3,080
Texas 12,596
Oklahoma 1,910

Personal & Culinary Services Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Cosmetology 124,611
Culinary Arts 22,075
Funeral & Mortuary Science 2,186
Casino Operations and Services 385
Other Personal & Culinary Services 95

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanic & Repair Technologies 105,741
Precision Production 55,411
Construction Trades 40,802
Transportation & Materials Moving 33,306

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 U.S. Army Europe Images.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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