2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Vermont” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 556,813 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, liberal arts / sciences and humanities is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.

Across Vermont, there were 305 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,919 and $22,872 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 182 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,031 and $14,660 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Vermont” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in liberal arts / sciences and humanities.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Vermont

The colleges and universities below are the best for vermont associate degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in Vermont

1

Landmark College
Putney, Vermont

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Landmark College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Putney, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 37 degrees to qualified associates’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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2

Community College of Vermont
Montpelier, Vermont

#11 overall quality in Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Community College of Vermont. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Vermont list. Community College of Vermont is a public institution located in Montpelier, Vermont. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 126 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

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 #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Vermont list. This small school is located in Johnson, Vermont, and it awarded 15 associates’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

Castleton University
Castleton, Vermont

#7 overall quality in Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Castleton University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Vermont. Castleton, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

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5

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 #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Vermont. Located in Bennington, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified associates’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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%. 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.

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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.

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