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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in Vermont

5 Ranked Colleges
65 Degrees Awarded
$24,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor's in Vermont

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking.

Film, Video & Photographic Arts is the 64th most popular major in the country with 17,506 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

For this year’s “Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer 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 Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont

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

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Film, Video & Photographic Arts in Vermont

#1

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Vermont. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont. University of Vermont is a fairly large public school situated in Burlington, Vermont. 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 per year to attend University of Vermont.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full University of Vermont Film, Video & Photographic Arts Report

#2

Northern Vermont University

Johnson, Vermont
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Vermont University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont. Northern Vermont University is a small public school situated in Johnson, Vermont. It awarded 4 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Northern Vermont University also took the #5 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Northern Vermont University is $15,749 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Film students.

Read full report on Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Northern Vermont University

#3

Champlain College

Burlington, Vermont

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Champlain College landed the #3 spot on the list. Champlain is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Burlington, Vermont. It awarded 17 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Champlain, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Champlain is $33,561 for vermont bachelor’s degree film 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%.

Read more about Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Champlain

#4

Middlebury College

Middlebury, Vermont
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Middlebury College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont. Middlebury is a small school located in Middlebury, Vermont that handed out 21 bachelors’s film degrees in 2019-2020.

Middlebury also took the #1 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Middlebury is $25,656 for Vermont Bachelor’s Degree Film students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Film, Video & Photographic Arts at Middlebury

#5

Bennington College

Bennington, Vermont
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Film Schools for a Bachelor’s in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Bennington College landed the #5 spot on the list. Bennington is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bennington, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Bennington also took the #4 spot in our “Best Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Vermont” ranking. It costs about $29,325 for vermont bachelor’s degree film students per year to attend Bennington College.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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 Bennington College

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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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