2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies in Vermont

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Individualized Studies Major in Vermont” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 37,634 people earned their degree in individualized studies, making the major the 38th most popular in the United States.

Across Vermont, there were 50 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,418 and $24,482 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Vermont” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in individualized studies. That schools that top this list have a program in individualized studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Vermont”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies in Vermont

1

Sterling College
Craftsbury Common, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sterling College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Vermont list. Located in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s individualized studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Individualized Studies at Sterling College

2

Landmark College
Putney, Vermont

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Landmark College landed the #2 spot on the list. Landmark College is a small school located in Putney, Vermont that handed out 7 bachelors’s individualized studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Individualized Studies at Landmark College

3

Bennington College
Bennington, Vermont

#2 overall quality in Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bennington College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in Vermont list. Bennington College is located in Bennington, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s individualized studies degrees to qualified students.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%.

Read more about Individualized Studies at Bennington College

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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

• *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.