Literature at Bennington College

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. Of the 227 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Bennington College in 2021, 15 of them were literature majors.

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

Each year, College Factual ranks literature programs across the country. The following shows how Bennington performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Most Focused Literature Schools	2
Most Popular Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools	10
	19
Best Value Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools	20
Best Literature Schools	28

Earnings of Bennington Literature Graduates

The median salary of literature students who receive their bachelor's degree at Bennington is $20,202. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $23,864 for all literature students.

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

Of the 15 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Literature from Bennington in 2020-2021, 13% were men and 87% were women.

About 67% 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	0
White	10
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Bennington also has a doctoral program available in literature. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• General English Literature
• Writing Studies
• English Literature (Other)

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
• Image Credit: By Jared C. Benedict. under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.