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Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Basic Certificate Schools in New Mexico

2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Basic Certificate Schools in New Mexico

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$1,858 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Personal & Culinary Services Basic Certificate 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 Basic Certificate Schools in New Mexico ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 6 schools in New Mexico to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for personal & culinary services students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Basic Certificate Schools in New Mexico

Check out the personal & culinary services basic certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best New Mexico Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Personal & Culinary Services

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

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

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Out of the 6 schools in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy-Rio Rancho landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Rio Rancho, Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy-Rio Rancho is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

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#2

Aveda Institute - New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM

The excellent basic certificate programs at Aveda Institute - New Mexico helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value personal & culinary services schools in New Mexico. Located in the city of Albuquerque, Aveda Institute - New Mexico is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

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The excellent basic certificate programs at Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy-Albuquerque helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value personal & culinary services schools in New Mexico. Located in the city of Albuquerque, Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy-Albuquerque is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vogue College of Cosmetology-Santa Fe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Personal & Culinary Services Basic Certificate Schools in New Mexico list. Vogue College of Cosmetology-Santa Fe is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Santa Fe.

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The excellent basic certificate programs at Olympian Academy of Cosmetology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value personal & culinary services schools in New Mexico. Located in the remote town of Alamogordo, Olympian Academy of Cosmetology is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

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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 averages are for the top 6 schools 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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