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2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k

4 Ranked Colleges
107 Degrees Awarded
$13,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor's in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Fine & Studio Arts is the 29th most popular major in the country with 39,860 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, fine and studio arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,847 and had an average of $28,316 in loans still to pay off.

Across Vermont, there were 130 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $19,750 and $25,015 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 107 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fine and studio arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fine and studio arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the fine and studio arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts (Income $0-$30k) in Vermont

#1

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middlebury College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k list. Middlebury, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s Fine Arts degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

Middlebury also made our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Middlebury College is $6,161 for vermont bachelor’s degree fine arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 1.0% 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 89%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Middlebury College Fine & Studio Arts Report

#2

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Vermont. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Burlington, Vermont, this fairly large public school awarded 47 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s Fine Arts students in 2019-2020.

UVM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Vermont is $12,015 for vermont bachelor’s degree fine arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Fine & Studio Arts at UVM

#3

Northern Vermont University

Johnson, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Vermont University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k. Northern Vermont University is a public institution located in Johnson, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Northern Vermont University also took the #4 spot in our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Northern Vermont University is $12,931 for vermont bachelor’s degree fine arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Fine & Studio Arts at Northern Vermont University

#4

Bennington College

Bennington, Vermont
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bennington College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Bennington, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s Fine Arts students in 2019-2020.

Bennington not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. The estimated yearly cost for Bennington is $23,511 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Fine & Studio Arts at Bennington College

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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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