Bennington, Vermont Private nonprofit 4-year Town
Bennington College is a private nonprofit four-year institution based in Bennington, Vermont. The campus sits in a town setting. It enrolled 927 students in fall 2024, including 797 undergraduates and 130 graduate students.
Bennington College offers associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, and master's degrees across 139 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are English Language and Literature/Letters, Other, Dance, and General Literature. It awarded 230 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.
82% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 9 to 1.
Bennington regards education as a sensual and ethical, no less than an intellectual, process. It seeks to liberate and nurture the individuality, the creative intelligence, and the ethical and aesthetic sensibility of its students, to the end that their richly varied natural endowments will be directed toward self-fulfillment and toward constructive social purposes. We believe that these educational goals are best served by demanding of our students active participation in the planning of their own programs, and in the regulation of their own lives on campus.
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Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.
Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.
Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.
Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.
Distance education in 2024-25.
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