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Bennington College Data & Information Overview

1 award Ranking Badges
Great Price Value for Your Money
45% Acceptance Rate
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How Well Is Bennington College Ranked?

#361 Best Colleges in Nation
#3 Best Colleges in VT
English Language & Literature Highest Ranked Major
Quality Badge

2025 Rankings

College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.

Bennington College was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is english language & literature.

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Overall Quality

Bennington landed the #361 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Bennington held the #456 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

Bennington also holds the #3 spot on the Best Colleges in Vermont ranking.

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Is It Hard to Get Into Bennington?

45% Acceptance Rate
74% Of Accepted Are Women
13% Submit SAT Scores

Acceptance Rate

The acceptance rate at Bennington College is a competitive 45%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.

Average Test Scores

About 13% of students accepted to Bennington submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 660 and 700. Math scores were between 600 and 670.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Bennington College  ( 660 to 700 )
200
800

SAT Math Scores for Bennington College  ( 600 to 670 )
200
800
Bennington received ACT scores from 5% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT Composite scores ranged between 29 and 33.

ACT Composite Scores for Bennington College  ( 29 to 33 )
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36

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Bennington College Faculty

9 to 1 Student to Faculty
45% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

At Bennington, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 9 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.

The full-time faculty percentage at Bennington College is 45%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  45 out of 100
0
100

Retention and Graduation Rates at Bennington College

84% Freshmen Retention
61% On-Time Graduation Rate

Freshmen Retention Rate

The freshmen retention rate of 84% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Bennington College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.

Freshmen Retention Rate  84 out of 100
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100

Graduation Rate

Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Bennington the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 61%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%

On-Time Graduation Rate  61 out of 100
0
100

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Bennington College Undergraduate Student Diversity

606 Full-Time Undergraduates
17.0% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
67.5% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 697 undergraduates at Bennington with 606 being full-time and 91 being part-time.

How Much Does Bennington College Cost?

$29,787 Net Price
55% Take Out Loans
$27,384 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of Bennington is $29,787. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for Bennington

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$22,063 $16,157 $20,889 $27,517 $41,106

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Bennington, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Bennington, approximately 55% of students took out student loans averaging $6,846 a year. That adds up to $27,384 over four years for those students.

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How Much Money Do Bennington Graduates Make?

$38,289 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Yearly salaries vary depending on what you major in, but on average, bachelor's degree recipients from Bennington make around $38,289 per year during the early years of their employment. This is right on par with the average college graduate's salary of $49,219 per year. Also, graduates in your major field may make more.

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Location of Bennington College

Vermont State
606 Full-Time Undergraduates
Town Campus Setting
Bennington College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bennington, Vermont. Bennington is a good match for students who enjoy small-town life.

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Contact details for Bennington are given below.

Contact Details
Address: One College Drive, Bennington, VT 05201-6003
Phone: 802-442-5401
Website: https://www.bennington.edu/

Bennington College Majors

76 Majors With Completions
604 Undergraduate Degrees
604 Graduate Degrees
During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 76 majors graduated from Bennington College. Of these students, 604 received undergraduate degrees and 604 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
English Literature (Other) 46 NA
General Visual & Performing Arts 34 $20,809
Drama & Theater Arts 23 $16,579
Literature 20 $18,152
Music 15 NA
Public Policy 14 NA
Computer Science 12 NA
Natural Resources Conservation 11 NA
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 10 NA
Fine & Studio Arts 10 NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Bennington College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at Bennington

32% Take At Least One Class Online
12% Take All Classes Online

Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.

In 2022-2023, 280 students took at least one online class at Bennington College. This is an increase from the 171 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2022-2023 280 107
2021-2022 171 151
2020-2021 750 194
2018-2019 72 0

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

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