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Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development is based in the town of Santa Fe, NM — a public campus in a small-town setting. The federal record identifies it as a land-grant institution.
What could it cost?
Start with net price after grants, then read the published costs. Each chart names its academic year and the students it covers.
Net price by family income (partial)
Average annual cost after grants for each family-income band. These group averages are not personal price quotes.
under $30k
Only three of the five income brackets were filed for the same year at Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development — this isn't a full distribution.
Average annual attendance cost after grants for the reported student group. Your own aid offer and costs may differ.
Average net price at Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development rose from $8,911 (2008) to $12,570 (2023).
| Year | Net price |
|---|---|
| 2008 | $8,911 |
| 2009 | $9,584 |
| 2010 | $7,640 |
| 2011 | $9,114 |
| 2012 | $10,181 |
| 2013 | $9,334 |
| 2014 | $10,532 |
| 2015 | $11,686 |
| 2016 | $13,645 |
| 2017 | $13,444 |
| 2018 | $12,607 |
| 2019 | $13,504 |
| 2020 | $13,184 |
| 2021 | $12,428 |
| 2022 | $12,322 |
| 2023 | $12,570 |
Estimated annual attendance budget before grants, including tuition, fees, housing, food and books. Not every expense is billed by the school.
Total cost at Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development rose from $11,709 (2009) to $24,854 (2024).
| Year | Cost |
|---|---|
| 2009 | $11,709 |
| 2010 | $13,042 |
| 2011 | $14,169 |
| 2012 | $14,584 |
| 2013 | $15,287 |
| 2014 | $16,272 |
| 2015 | $18,570 |
| 2016 | $20,463 |
| 2017 | $20,660 |
| 2018 | $20,780 |
| 2019 | $21,011 |
| 2020 | $22,036 |
| 2021 | $21,823 |
| 2022 | $23,124 |
| 2023 | $23,873 |
| 2024 | $24,854 |
Tuition & fees
Skip to data tablePublished tuition and fees before grants. Housing, food, books and other attendance costs are separate.
| Year | Tuition & fees |
|---|---|
| 2001 | $2,400 |
| 2002 | $2,490 |
| 2003 | $2,490 |
| 2004 | $2,490 |
| 2005 | $2,550 |
| 2006 | $2,550 |
| 2007 | $2,700 |
| 2008 | $2,500 |
| 2013 | $3,560 |
| 2014 | $3,800 |
| 2015 | $4,440 |
| 2016 | $4,700 |
| 2017 | $4,960 |
| 2018 | $4,980 |
| 2019 | $5,220 |
| 2020 | $4,726 |
| 2021 | $5,321 |
| 2022 | $5,561 |
| 2023 | $5,801 |
Cost, size & completion summary
Cost, size & completion
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development reports tuition of $5,920 for in-state students and $5,920 for out-of-state students. Check Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development’s residency rules, attendance budget and aid offer. Scorecard snapshot: 2026-06-10; historical charts show their own years.
Enrollment sits at 334 — Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development is one of the smaller campuses on this site.
14.6% of first-time, full-time bachelor's entrants completed at Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development within six years (2026-06-10 release). This measure excludes other student groups.
Do students finish — and what comes after?
Graduation, debt and earnings cover different groups. Read each chart's entering class or fiscal period; they are not one group's journey.
The share of first-time, full-time bachelor's entrants who completed at this institution within six years. Other students are not included.
The six-year graduation rate at Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development fell from 20.8% (entered 2004) to 14.6% (entered 2018).
A six-year rate can only describe a class that entered six or more years ago — by definition the last point on the line is that old.
| Year | Graduated within 6 yrs |
|---|---|
| 1995 cohort | 35% |
| 1997 cohort | 35% |
| 1998 cohort | 32.8% |
| 1999 cohort | 9.8% |
| 2001 cohort | 17.9% |
| 2002 cohort | 28% |
| 2003 cohort | — |
| 2004 cohort | 20.8% |
| 2005 cohort | 34.2% |
| 2006 cohort | 27.6% |
| 2007 cohort | 25% |
| 2008 cohort | 27.6% |
| 2009 cohort | 23.5% |
| 2010 cohort | 20% |
| 2011 cohort | 20% |
| 2012 cohort | 11.1% |
| 2013 cohort | 31.3% |
| 2014 cohort | 33.3% |
| 2015 cohort | 24.1% |
| 2016 cohort | 27.3% |
| 2017 cohort | 24.5% |
| 2018 cohort | 14.6% |
Earnings after entry
Historical student groupsMedian annual earnings after entering college, for federally aided students who were working and not enrolled when measured.
Each figure covers a different group of students who entered college in the stated years. Earnings were measured in the same two years; these are not one group followed over time.
Measured in 2020–21, adjusted for inflation to 2022 dollars. Each figure pools two entering academic years.
What does the admissions record show?
Rates and score ranges describe a past admissions cycle. Submitted scores are not cutoffs or a prediction of admission.
Admissions snapshot & test policies
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development admitted 77 of 79 applicants in Fall 2024. The 97.5% rate describes that application pool.
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Admissions
In the Fall 2024 cycle, Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development received 79 applications and admitted 77 (97.5%), with 55 enrolling.
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development: scores were considered but optional in the Fall 2024 admissions cycle.
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The share of applicants offered a spot — lower means more selective; read it alongside the score ranges below.
| Year | Acceptance rate |
|---|---|
| Fall 2001 | 19.8% |
| Fall 2002 | 47.2% |
| Fall 2003 | 23.8% |
| Fall 2004 | 28.3% |
| Fall 2005 | 95.1% |
| Fall 2007 | 4.1% |
| Fall 2008 | 18.5% |
| Fall 2013 | 100% |
| Fall 2014 | 100% |
| Fall 2015 | 100% |
| Fall 2016 | 100% |
| Fall 2017 | 100% |
| Fall 2018 | 100% |
| Fall 2019 | 100% |
| Fall 2020 | 100% |
| Fall 2021 | 100% |
| Fall 2022 | 100% |
| Fall 2023 | 100% |
| Fall 2024 | 97.5% |
Sums of the reading/writing and math percentiles among enrolled submitters — not percentiles of total SAT scores or admission cutoffs.
| Year | 25th | 75th |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2007 | 610 | 880 |
| Fall 2008 | 600 | 800 |
The middle half of enrolled ACT submitters, using published composite-score percentiles — not admission cutoffs.
2 filed values fell outside the usable range for this scale and aren't drawn here.
| Year | 25th | 75th |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2007 | 16 | 25 |
| Fall 2008 | 15 | 21 |
What is the campus like?
Enrollment counts a campus population; retention follows first-years returning. Their dates and populations are shown separately.
Reported undergraduate enrollment. This count does not measure class size or teaching access.
Undergraduate enrollment at Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development rose from 136 (Fall 2002) to 334 (Fall 2024).
| Year | Undergraduates |
|---|---|
| Fall 2002 | 136 |
| Fall 2003 | 141 |
| Fall 2004 | 134 |
| Fall 2005 | 83 |
| Fall 2006 | 180 |
| Fall 2007 | 217 |
| Fall 2008 | 202 |
| Fall 2009 | 279 |
| Fall 2010 | 264 |
| Fall 2011 | 272 |
| Fall 2012 | 241 |
| Fall 2013 | 225 |
| Fall 2014 | 235 |
| Fall 2015 | 263 |
| Fall 2016 | 288 |
| Fall 2017 | 329 |
| Fall 2018 | 327 |
| Fall 2019 | 355 |
| Fall 2020 | 311 |
| Fall 2021 | 294 |
| Fall 2022 | 311 |
| Fall 2023 | 307 |
| Fall 2024 | 334 |
The share of the reported first-time student group who returned the following year. This rate does not explain why others left.
First-year retention at Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development has wandered from Fall 2005 to Fall 2023 — up to 79% at the peak — but ends near where it began, at 70%.
| Year | Retention |
|---|---|
| Fall 2002 cohort | 59% |
| Fall 2003 cohort | 56% |
| Fall 2004 cohort | — |
| Fall 2005 cohort | 73% |
| Fall 2006 cohort | 78% |
| Fall 2007 cohort | 52% |
| Fall 2008 cohort | 58% |
| Fall 2009 cohort | 52% |
| Fall 2010 cohort | 72% |
| Fall 2011 cohort | 61% |
| Fall 2012 cohort | 69% |
| Fall 2013 cohort | 67% |
| Fall 2014 cohort | 70% |
| Fall 2015 cohort | 50% |
| Fall 2016 cohort | 61% |
| Fall 2017 cohort | 51% |
| Fall 2018 cohort | 56% |
| Fall 2019 cohort | 44% |
| Fall 2020 cohort | 61% |
| Fall 2021 cohort | 79% |
| Fall 2022 cohort | 58% |
| Fall 2023 cohort | 70% |
More about Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
22.5% of Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development's undergraduates carry Pell grants — the standard federal marker of lower-income enrollment. Carnegie classes Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development as a primarily residential campus of 334 undergraduates — and 70.3% of the reported first-time, full-time student group returned for a second year.
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development's Fall 2024 filing has no usable score range. Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development considered scores then; check today’s requirements.
Why some charts are marked “key chart”
Start with three useful questions: what costs were reported for families in your income band, how many first-time full-time students finished, and what federal debt borrowers held when leaving.
How Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development compares
State and national medians cover active bachelor-primary institutions, mixing public and private schools. Tuition uses in-state rates at public schools. These are broad reference points, not a ranking of similar schools or your likely bill.
Scorecard dates identify the release snapshot, not a shared measurement year. Earnings describe federally aided students who were working and not enrolled ten years after entry; cohorts and populations differ from the admissions and tuition figures.
Acceptance rate
Fall 2024 admissions cycle · IPEDS
Tuition (in-state)
Scorecard 2026-06-10 snapshot · published tuition before aid
Median earnings (10 yr)
Ten years after entry · Scorecard 2026-06-10 snapshot
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development's snapshot: calendar years and dollar basis unverified.
View comparison data & dates
| Metric & basis | Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development | New Mexico median | National median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acceptance rateFall 2024 admissions cycle · IPEDS | 97.5% | 90.3% | 76.8% |
| Tuition (in-state)Scorecard 2026-06-10 snapshot · published tuition before aid | $5,920 | $8,183 | $19,591 |
| Median earnings (10 yr)Ten years after entry · Scorecard 2026-06-10 snapshot | $24,505 | $41,944 | $53,781 |
Frequently asked questions
What is Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development's acceptance rate?
97.5% in the Fall 2024 cycle — 77 admitted from 79 applicants.
How much does Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development cost?
In-state tuition is $5,920; out-of-state students pay $5,920. Fees, housing and aid move the real total in both directions.
What earnings data does Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development report?
Median earnings ten years after entry: $24,505. Source and date limits.
Similar colleges in New Mexico
- Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus — 91.7% admitted
- University of New Mexico-Main Campus — 95.2% admitted
- New Mexico State University-Main Campus — 89% admitted
- New Mexico Highlands University
Run your own numbers
Data: IPEDS ADM2024 (Fall 2024 admissions, provisional) · IPEDS HD2024/IC2024 directory · College Scorecard 2026-06-10 release (institution and field-of-study files; earnings from Treasury records). Retrieved 2026-09-01. Chart dates follow this institution's available observations; the release date is not an academic year or an earnings year. Some records end earlier than others. Read the date and population definitions.