2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Vermont

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In 2020-2021, 366,996 liberal arts students received their degree, making the major the 2nd most popular in the country.

Across Vermont, there were 208 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,945 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Vermont” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in liberal arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their liberal arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Vermont

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in Vermont

1

Goddard College
Plainfield, Vermont

#8 overall quality in Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Goddard College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Vermont list. Plainfield, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s liberal studies degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Liberal Arts at Goddard College

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Vermont. Bennington is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bennington, Vermont. It awarded 1 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Liberal Arts at Bennington

2

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 #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Vermont list. Northern Vermont University is a small public school situated in Johnson, Vermont. It awarded 18 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Northern Vermont University Liberal Arts 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

• *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.