2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Studies Major in Vermont

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Studies Major in Vermont” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 5th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 129,869 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across Vermont, there were 47 general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,418 and $24,482 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Studies Major in Vermont” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general studies.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Studies Major in Vermont

The colleges and universities below are the best for vermont bachelor’s degree general studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Studies in Vermont

1

Northern Vermont University
Johnson, Vermont

#10 overall quality in Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Vermont University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Studies Major in Vermont list. Located in Johnson, Vermont, this small public school awarded 28 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general studies students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Studies at Northern Vermont University

2

Bennington College
Bennington, Vermont

#2 overall quality in Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bennington College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Studies Major in Vermont. Bennington, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general studies degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate 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.

Read full report on General Studies at Bennington College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Studies in the New England Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Studies

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.