Student Success
When employers ask us how it is that undergraduates from a small liberal arts college are going head-to-head and toe-to-toe with seasoned professionals, we credit the Plan and Field Work Term—pillars of a Bennington education from the College's inception. By the time they graduate, Bennington students have acquired at least four jobs or internship experiences and a deep understanding of what they want to do. They are able to navigate challenges, translate abstract ideas into tangibles; they have an uncanny facility for collaboration and communication; and they are comfortable negotiating the known and the unknown. Our outcomes are another indicator of student success: one year out, 97% of graduates are employed, in service programs, or in graduate school, 85% of students are doing work connected to their academic study, and 77% of our students report being engaged in their work.