2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy in Vermont
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Vermont” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 6,430 people earned their degree in public policy, making the major the 113th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, public policy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,451 and had an average of $21,866 in loans still to pay off.
Across Vermont, there were 21 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 public policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,945 and $0 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in public policy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Vermont
The colleges and universities below are the best for vermont master’s degree public policy students.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Policy in Vermont
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Policy Major in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Bennington College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bennington College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bennington, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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.
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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
- *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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