2024 Best Geography Bachelor's Degree Schools in Vermont

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in geography, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #103 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Vermont to determine which ones were the best for geography students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 31 bachelor's degrees in geography during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on geography students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other geography students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geography related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for geography students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Geography Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Geography Bachelor's Degree Schools in Vermont ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Geography in Vermont

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for geography students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Vermont Schools for a Bachelor's in Geography

1

Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT

20 Annual Graduates

Middlebury College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in geography. Middlebury is a small private not-for-profit college located in the distant town of Middlebury.More information about a bachelor’s in geography from Middlebury College

2

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT

11 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University of Vermont if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in geography. Located in the city of Burlington, UVM is a public university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in geography from University of Vermont

Best Geography Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Geography Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	581	92
Connecticut	341	26
Rhode Island	307	1
Maine	281	0
New Hampshire	276	59

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Geography Related Rankings by Major

One of 2 majors within the Geography & Cartography area of study, Geography has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Couleur. More about our data sources and methodologies.