2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Design & Applied Arts in Vermont

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 36,854 people earned their degree in design and applied arts, making the major the 34th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, design and applied arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,542 and had an average of $27,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across Vermont, there were 96 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,500 and $26,959 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in design and applied arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality design and applied arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the design and applied arts 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Design & Applied Arts in Vermont

#1

Northern Vermont University

Johnson, Vermont

#2 in overall quality

$15,749 Average Net Price

$32,925 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Vermont University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northern Vermont University is a small public school situated in Johnson, Vermont. It awarded 4 bachelors’s design degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northern Vermont University, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Northern Vermont University is $15,749 for vermont bachelor’s degree design students.

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#2

Champlain College

Burlington, Vermont

#1 in overall quality

$33,561 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Design Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Champlain College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Burlington, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 68 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s design students in 2019-2020.

Champlain did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. The estimated yearly cost for Champlain College is $33,561 for vermont bachelor’s degree design students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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

• *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.

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