Vermont Private Colleges and Universities

Independent Colleges and Universities in Vermont

Vermont is a thriving place for learning, offering a wide range of colleges, universities, and distance learning opportunities. Whether your passion is technology, agriculture, the arts, or general business studies, there are educational resources to fit your needs.

Vermont private colleges and universities offer a wide range of education programs with degrees and certificates up to the doctoral level, as well as professional degrees such as law and medicine. These Vermont private schools are diverse in character, academic emphasis, and origins. Some private colleges or schools have a religious affiliation; others are secular. Private colleges and universities may be profit or non-profit institutions. Typically, Vermont independent colleges or private schools give weight to personal characteristics and activities in addition to considering GPA and test scores. While many Vermont private schools are considerably more expensive than comparable state institutions, they also tend to offer more generous financial aid packages. Many students have found the actual out-of-pocket cost to earn a degree from a private college in Vermont to be less than the cost of the state schools to which they were accepted. On the one hand, public colleges are usually less expensive, particularly for in-state residents. They get most of their money from the state or local government. Check out your state's Guide to Residency. Vermont private colleges rely on tuition, fees, endowments, and other private sources of funding. On the other hand, Vermont private colleges are usually smaller and can offer more personalized attention (and some believe, more prestige).

Vermont College Graduate and Undergraduate Degrees

Vermont Private Colleges and Universities

Vermont Independent Colleges

Most private colleges and universities are members of the AVIC. AVIC seeks to strengthen the quality of higher education in Vermont, with a focus on its independent colleges, their service to the general public, and their accessibility to the broadest range of students.

Independent Schools Association of Northern New England

ISANNE believe that there is no purpose more worthy or essential than educating our children. In a day and age of voluminous quantities of information and imagery being rapidly disseminated, in a time when the pace of change is often dizzying, it is absolutely necessary that schools devote careful, personal attention to their students and accept the responsibility for developing values in their hearts as well as capabilities in their minds. ISANNE believe that an independent school is the right setting for such efforts, and we are confident that you - parents of young people - will find the right independent school among the variety of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont schools presented in this Directory.

Association of Independent Schools in New England

Believing that schools have the potential to make our world better through their work with children, AISNE provides educational leadership and relevant, responsive services to its diverse membership; promotes equity, excellence and collaboration within the New England independent school community; supports schools in their service to a broader public purpose; and advocates for the independence of member schools and the value of independent education.

• Bennington College
• Burlington College
• Center for Northern Studies, The, Craftsbury Common
• Champlain College, Burlington
• College of Saint Joseph, Rutland
• Goddard College, Plainfield
• Green Mountain College, Poultney
• Marlboro College
• Middlebury College
• Norwich University, Northfield
• Saint Michael's College, Colchester
• School for International Training, Brattleboro
• Southern New Hampshire University, Colchester
• Southern Vermont College, Bennington
• Sterling College, Craftsbury Common
• Vermont College, Montpelier
• Vermont Law School, South Royalton
• Woodbury College, Montpelier