Fine Arts is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #66 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Vermont to determine which ones were the best for fine arts students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 65 degrees in fine arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of fine arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Fine Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Fine Arts Schools in Vermont list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of fine arts degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Middlebury College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in fine arts. Located in the town of Middlebury, Middlebury is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #76 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Middlebury is a great college overall.
There were approximately 5 fine arts students who graduated with this degree at Middlebury in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat University of Vermont if you want to pursue a degree in fine arts. UVM is a large public university located in the city of Burlington. This university ranks 4th out of 11 schools for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were approximately 33 fine arts students who graduated with this degree at UVM in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Northern Vermont University if you want to pursue a degree in fine arts. Northern Vermont University is a small public university located in the rural area of Johnson. This university ranks 10th out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were approximately 9 fine arts students who graduated with this degree at Northern Vermont University in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of fine arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Fine Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
