The Middlebury Connection

The Monterey Institute of International Studies was founded in 1955, and in July 2010 became 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, located in 34 cities in 13 countries throughout East Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Middlebury is also home to the nation’s oldest undergraduate program in environmental studies, ranked third in the country by the Sierra Club.

Middlebury-Monterey Integration

In 2005, recognizing their many common interests and potential synergies, the Monterey Institute and Middlebury College signed an affiliation agreement. The agreement launched a five-year transition that concluded on July 1, 2010 with the formal designation of the Institute as a graduate school of Middlebury College. The combination of Middlebury and Monterey creates an unparalleled continuum of learning opportunities for students with a global perspective, from the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy, to the two campuses’ undergraduate and graduate degree programs, to specialized short-term programs such as Middlebury’s Language Schools and Monterey’s Summer Intensive Language Program.

Integrated Degree Programs

Further, the new Middlebury-Monterey integrated degree programs offer students and qualified alumni the opportunity to earn both a bachelor’s degree at Middlebury and a master’s degree at the Monterey Institute in just five years in five different program areas:

• International Environmental Policy
• International Policy Studies
• Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
• Teaching Foreign Languages
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

By combining forces, Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute have assembled a truly global network of programs designed to make a difference by preparing students to be the solution to the world’s most pressing problems.

Source:

www.miis.edu/about/middlebury on February 3, 2012