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2022 Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont

4 Ranked Colleges
136 Degrees Awarded
$24,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor's in Vermont

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking - to help you make that decision.

History is the 22nd most popular major in the country with 32,905 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, history graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,593 and had an average of $23,490 in loans still to pay off.

Across Vermont, there were 211 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 136 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in history. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great history programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the history program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont

The colleges and universities below are the best for vermont bachelor’s degree history students.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for History in Vermont

#1

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont list. Burlington, Vermont is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s history degrees to 52 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our vermont bachelor’s degree history students list, UVM has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. It costs about $18,982 for vermont bachelor’s degree history students per year to attend University of Vermont.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#2

Norwich University

Northfield, Vermont
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Norwich University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont list. This small school is located in Northfield, Vermont, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s history degrees in 2019-2020.

Norwich not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. It costs about $24,701 for vermont bachelor’s degree history students per year to attend Norwich University.

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#3

Saint Michael's College

Colchester, Vermont
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Michael’s College landed the #3 spot on the list. Saint Michael’s is located in Colchester, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s history degrees to qualified students.

Saint Michael’s also made our “Best History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Saint Michael’s College is $27,927 for vermont bachelor’s degree history students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

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#4

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middlebury College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont list. Middlebury College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Middlebury, Vermont. It awarded 31 bachelors’s history degrees in 2019-2020.

Middlebury also took the #1 spot in our “Best History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Middlebury College is $25,656 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree History students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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