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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across Vermont, there were 155 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,800 and $30,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general education programs that also have a lower cost than 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 general education program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Vermont

#1

Goddard College

Plainfield, Vermont

#3 in overall quality

$23,873 Average Net Price

$47,260 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Goddard College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont list. Goddard College is a small school located in Plainfield, Vermont that handed out 17 bachelors’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

Goddard College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. The yearly cost to attend Goddard College is $23,873 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Education students.

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%.

Read full report on General Education at Goddard College

#2

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

#2 in overall quality

$18,982 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Education 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 education degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

UVM also made our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $18,982 for vermont bachelor’s degree education students per year to attend University of Vermont.

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.

Read full report on General Education at UVM

#3

Saint Michael's College

Colchester, Vermont

#1 in overall quality

$27,927 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Education 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 a small school located in Colchester, Vermont that handed out 9 bachelors’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

Saint Michael’s did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. It costs about $27,927 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Education students per year to attend Saint Michael’s College.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its 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%.

Full Saint Michael’s College General Education Report

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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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