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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts (Income Over $110k) in Vermont

5 Ranked Colleges
65 Degrees Awarded
$33,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor's in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 17,506 people earned their degree in film, video and photographic arts, making the major the 64th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, film, video and photographic arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $22,714 and had an average of $31,549 in loans still to pay off.

Across Vermont, there were 83 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,300 and $24,749 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 65 film, video and photographic arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in film, video and photographic arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality film, video and photographic 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 film, video and photographic arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for vermont bachelor’s degree film students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts (Income Over $110k) in Vermont

#1

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k list. This fairly large school is located in Burlington, Vermont, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

UVM also took the #2 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. It costs about $18,982 for vermont bachelor’s degree film students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend University of Vermont.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at UVM

#2

Northern Vermont University

Johnson, Vermont
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Vermont University landed the #2 spot on the list. Northern Vermont University is located in Johnson, Vermont and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s film degrees to qualified students.

Northern Vermont University also took the #5 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Vermont University is $15,749 for vermont bachelor’s degree film students whose families make more than $110k.

Full Northern Vermont University Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

#3

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middlebury College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k list. This small school is located in Middlebury, Vermont, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Middlebury, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Middlebury College is $25,656 for vermont bachelor’s degree film students whose families make more than $110k.

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%. 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Middlebury

#4

Champlain College

Burlington, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Champlain College. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k list. Burlington, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s film degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Champlain also took the #3 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. It costs about $33,561 for vermont bachelor’s degree film students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Champlain.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Champlain College

#5

Bennington College

Bennington, Vermont
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bennington College. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Vallue Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont For Those Making Over $110k list. Bennington is a small school located in Bennington, Vermont that handed out 9 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Bennington did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” list. The yearly cost to attend Bennington College is $29,325 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Film students whose families make more than $110k.

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%. 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.

Full Bennington College Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

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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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