by our College Data Analytics Team
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Bennington College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 697 undergraduates at Bennington with 606 being full-time and 91 being part-time.
| $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.
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.
Get more details about the location of Bennington College.
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/ |
| 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 |
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 |
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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