A student rides his bike past the Frisbee dog sculpture on campus.
  • Middlebury College was founded in 1800
  • Laurie L. Patton became Middlebury’s 17th president in July 2015
  • About 2,800 undergraduate students
  • About 700 graduate students at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
  • Located in the Champlain Valley of central Vermont, with Vermont’s Green Mountains to the east and New York’s Adirondacks to the west
  • Renowned for leadership in language instruction and global studies
  • 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 Institute of International Studies at Monterey
  • Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad in 16 countries and 36 cities
  • More than 850 courses in 45 majors, as well as STEM and preprofessional programs
  • 9:1 student-faculty ratio
  • Most classes are small; the average class size is 16
  • All courses are taught by faculty members (rather than graduate assistants)
  • Nationally known for programs in environmental studies and international studies
  • World-class facilities in the sciences
  • First-year seminars: discussion-oriented courses with an intensive writing component to help students make the transition to college work; seminar teachers also serve as first-year students’ advisors
  • Winter term: one-month January semester in which students can concentrate on one course, or take on an internship
  • 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
  • 42 NCAA championship teams: men’s hockey—8 titles (’95, ’96, ’97, ’98, ’99, ’04, ’05, ’06), women’s lacrosse—8 titles (’97, ’99, ’01, ’02, ’04, ’16, ’19, ’22), field hockey—7 titles (’98, ’15, ’17, ’18, ’19, ’21, ’22), women’s ice hockey—6 titles (’00, ’01, ’04, ’05, ’06, ’22), women’s cross-country—6 titles (’00, ’01, ’03, ’06, ’08, ’10), men’s lacrosse—3 titles (’00, ’01, ’02), men’s tennis—3 titles (’04, ’10, ’18), men’s soccer (’07)