Founded in 1800, led by Middlebury’s 18th president Ian Baucom
About 2,600 undergraduate students
Located in the Champlain Valley of central Vermont, with Vermont’s Green Mountains to the east and New York’s Adirondacks to the west
Nationally known for programs in environmental studies and international studies
Offering more than 850 courses in 45 majors, as well as STEM and preprofessional programs
9:1 student-faculty ratio
Mostly small classes, average 16 students per class
All courses taught by faculty members (rather than graduate assistants)
World-class facilities in the sciences
Graduate and summer programs: summer Language Schools (12 languages: Abenaki, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish), Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences
Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad in 16 countries and 36 cities
31 NCAA varsity teams; 28 percent of students participate in varsity sports
Charter member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC); other members are Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Trinity, Tufts, Williams, and Wesleyan
