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2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
107 Degrees Awarded
$22,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor's in Vermont For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 $75-$110k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fine and studio arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent fine and studio arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the fine and studio arts program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for vermont bachelor’s degree fine arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts (Income $75-$110k) in Vermont

#1

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Middlebury College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $75-$110k. Located in Middlebury, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s Fine Arts students in 2019-2020.

Middlebury also took the #1 spot in our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. It costs about $20,468 for vermont bachelor’s degree fine arts students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Middlebury.

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. 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%.

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#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 $75-$110k. University of Vermont is a public institution located in Burlington, Vermont. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 47 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UVM also made our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $21,595 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UVM.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Vermont Fine & Studio Arts Report

#3

Northern Vermont University

Johnson, Vermont

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Vermont University landed the #3 spot on the list. Northern Vermont University is located in Johnson, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s Fine Arts degrees to qualified students.

Northern Vermont University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Vermont University is $19,324 for vermont bachelor’s degree fine arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

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#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 $75-$110k. Located in Bennington, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s Fine Arts students in 2019-2020.

Bennington also made our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $27,823 for vermont bachelor’s degree fine arts students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Bennington.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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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