2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Dance is the 161st most popular major in the country with 3,397 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, dance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $20,940 and had an average of $26,168 in loans still to pay off.

Across Vermont, there were 13 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in dance. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great dance programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the dance program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $30-$48k) in Vermont

#1

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont

#1 in overall quality

$8,616 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Middlebury College landed the #1 spot on the list. Middlebury College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Middlebury, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Middlebury also took the #1 spot in our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. It costs about $8,616 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Dance students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Middlebury College.

The 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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Middlebury College Dance Report

#2

Bennington College

Bennington, Vermont

#2 in overall quality

$22,730 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bennington College landed the #2 spot on the list. Bennington, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s dance degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bennington, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. It costs about $22,730 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Dance students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Bennington College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Bennington College Dance Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jazzart Dance Theatre.

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