Quick Facts- Middlebury College was founded in 1800
- Laurie L. Patton became Middlebury's 17th president in July 2015
- About 2,500 undergraduate students
- About 750 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 (11 languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish), Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
- Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad in 17 countries and 37 cities
- More than 850 courses in 44 majors
- 8:1 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
- Strong programs and 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
- 35 NCAA championship teams since 1995: men's hockey-8 titles ('95, '96, '97, '98, '99, '04, '05, '06), women's cross country-6 ('00, '01, '03, '06, '08, '10), women's hockey-5 ('00, '01, '04, '05, 06), women's lacrosse-6 ('97, '99, '01, '02, '04, '16), men's lacrosse-3 ('00, '01, '02), men's tennis-3 ('04, '10, '18), field hockey-3 ('98,'15, '17), men's soccer ('07)
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