Middlebury College Language Schools

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The Middlebury Language Schools are language schools administered by Middlebury College. Immersion and graduate programs are offered in 13 languages during two-, six-, seven-, or eight-week summer sessions. The schools enroll approximately 1,500 students every summer. The pedagogical approach of the programs relies on immersion-based instruction and acquisition. All students in the Language Schools are required to live on campus and must sign and abide by Middlebury College's "Language Pledge", a pledge to use exclusively their target language during their time in the program.

Immersion programs are offered in Abenaki, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Additionally, graduate-level instruction is offered in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. The Language Schools also offer a Doctor of Modern Languages (D.M.L.) degree, currently unique to Middlebury. Middlebury launched a pilot School of Abenaki in 2020; the first accredited session occurred in the summer of 2021. Students come from all ages and parts of the world.