Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont, a town 10 to 35 miles from a city, with 2,738 undergraduates. Social sciences and natural resources are its signature fields: together they make up 39% of its bachelor's degrees, about four times their share across the colleges we cover. 91% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $76,310 ten years after starting.
Middlebury College admitted 1,511 of 11,831 applicants for the fall 2025 entering class (12.8%).
- Acceptance rate
- 12.8%
- Fall 2025 class
- Tuition and fees
- $67,600
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $31,483
- Average, students with aid
- SAT, middle 50%
- 1460–1530
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2025 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Middlebury College is known for
Measured by the 767 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Social sciences
31.2%
of its bachelor's degrees: about four times the 8.0% share across the colleges we cover.
Natural resources
7.6%
of its bachelor's degrees: about six times the 1.2% share across the colleges we cover.
- Economics10613.8% of degrees$123,477+49% vs $82,686 nationally
- Natural Resources Conservation and Research587.6% of degrees$53,518About the $55,012 national median
- Computer Science577.4% of degrees$128,471+20% vs $107,009 nationally
- Neurobiology and Neurosciences486.3% of degrees$90,917+46% vs $62,451 nationally
- International Relations and National Security Studies486.3% of degrees$92,728+39% vs $66,596 nationally
- Political Science and Government486.3% of degrees$77,444+22% vs $63,293 nationally
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Town, 10–35 miles from a city
Middlebury, VT
Undergraduates
2,738
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Baccalaureate college, arts and sciences focus
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
8 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
12%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Middlebury College
Three things Middlebury College published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
Early Decision admitted 39%. The regular round admitted 9.9%.
4×
the regular-round rate
A ratio between two rates the school published. Not a change in anyone’s odds.
460 of 1,179 early applicants were admitted, against 1,051 of 10,652 in the regular round. Early Decision is binding, and you can only use it at one school, which is exactly why the gap is worth knowing before you choose where to spend it.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
4×
the regular-round rate
A ratio between two rates the school published. Not a change in anyone’s odds.
Middlebury College files test scores under “important”.
That is the school’s own placement on the grid it publishes every year. 33% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
109 admitted from a waitlist of 1,996.
1,878 students accepted a place on that list, and 109 were admitted from it, 5.8% of the students who waited. A waitlist offer here is not a near-miss anyone can plan around.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
12.8%
1,511 admitted of 11,831 applicants
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
SAT, middle 50%
1460–1530
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
ACT, middle 50%
33–35
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
33%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
16%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Where do you actually stand at Middlebury College?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Middlebury College costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $67,600, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $85,880. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $31,483 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$67,600
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$85,880
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$31,483
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $85,880 full cost.
- Under $30k$12,723Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$8,229Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$17,510Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$18,526Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$49,824Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
91%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
94%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$76,310
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$13,857
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
What Middlebury College says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorvery important
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
- GPAvery important
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
- Class rankvery important
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
- Essayimportant
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
- Test scoresimportant
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
- Recommendationsimportant
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
The early round, in counts
Two published rates side by side. Early applicants are a different group of students, so the gap is a fact about those pools, not a lever anyone can pull.
Early Decision
4× the rateEarly Decision admitted 39% (460 of 1,179), against 9.9% in the regular round.
1,051 of 10,652 in the comparison pool.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
The waitlist, as the school reported it
Published counts, including the ones schools rarely lead with.
- Offered a waitlist place
- 1,996
- Accepted the place
- 1,878
- Admitted from the waitlist
- 109
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
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