Overview
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. The college currently enrolls about 2500 undergraduates and offers 44 majors. The most popular majors at Middlebury by number of recent graduates are: economics, international studies, English and American literatures, political science, psychology, and environmental studies.
Middlebury was listed as tied for the seventh-best liberal arts college in the U.S. in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Washington Monthly ranked the school 8th in its 2020 liberal arts college rankings based on their contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance places Middlebury at No. 15 in its 2019 ranking of 20 Best College Values in the U.S.
The Carnegie Foundation classifies Middlebury as one of the "most selective" institutions whose first-year students' test scores places these institutions in roughly the top fifth of baccalaureate institutions. For the class of 2023, the college offered admission to 1,547 students out of an applicant pool of 9,750, yielding an overall acceptance of 15.9%.
Middlebury's 31 varsity teams are known as the Middlebury Panthers and compete in the NCAA Division III's NESCAC conference