Middlebury Affiliation

The Monterey Institute is an affiliate of Middlebury College, one of the country's top liberal arts colleges. The partnership between the Monterey Institute and Middlebury College promises to create a truly global network of programs whose students are poised to be the solution to the world’s most pressing problems.

Mead Chapel at Middlebury College. Flickr photo by emptyhighway.

In 2005, recognizing their many common interests and potential synergies, the Monterey Institute of International Studies and Middlebury College signed an affiliation agreement. The agreement triggered a five-year transition that will conclude in summer 2010 with the formal designation of the Institute as “a graduate school of Middlebury College.” 

Founded in 1800, Middlebury College is a Vermont-based undergraduate institution known for its leadership in language education, international studies, and environmental studies. Middlebury offers its undergraduate students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Every summer, the main campus in Vermont and partner campus at Mills College in California are transformed into language schools devoted to the study of Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Middlebury College also provides a unique way to “live the language” through the C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad, comprising thirty programs among twelve different countries throughout East Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Middlebury is also home to the nation’s oldest environmental studies program, ranked third in the country by the Sierra Club.

The Monterey Institute and Middlebury College share a strong commitment to making a difference in the world. New degree paths, team-taught classes, joint research efforts, and new special programs like the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy are merely the building blocks for a new vision – a vision of a truly global network of programs that empower students of all ages to become agents of change in a world of challenges.