Literature at Bennington College

19% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you are interested in studying literature, you may want to check out the program at Bennington College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Bennington is located in Bennington, Vermont and approximately 799 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Literature section at the bottom of this page.

Bennington Literature Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Literature

Bennington Literature Rankings

The literature major at Bennington is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Literature. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Literature Student Demographics at Bennington

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the literature majors at Bennington College.

Bennington Literature Bachelor’s Program

68% Women

19% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 32% of literature bachelor's degrees went to men and 68% went to women. The typical literature bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% men. So male students are more repesented at Bennington since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in literature at Bennington are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Bennington College with a bachelor's in literature.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	22
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Literature

If you plan to be a literature major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Bennington College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Literature	15

Careers That Literature Grads May Go Into

A degree in literature can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VT, the home state for Bennington College.

Occupation	Jobs in VT	Average Salary in VT
Editors	260	$48,910
Writers and Authors	170	$62,260

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

College Factual
National Center for Education Statistics
O*NET Online
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