The Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad, operated by
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...
in 17 countries across 5 continents, offer overseas academic programs for undergraduates from various U.S. institutions, as well as graduate-level programs for students from the
Middlebury College Language Schools and the
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The first School was the School in Paris, opened in 1949. The Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools have been endowed by the
C.V. Starr Foundation.
Academic program
Programs vary in nature and in size. All instruction is in the host country language and conforms to that country's educational approach. Students may study for one or two semesters and can combine an internship with academic study. At many of the Schools, students can opt to directly enroll at a local university.
The Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools have an
immersion-based approach to language and cultural acquisition. All students must sign Middlebury's "''Language Pledge''," agreeing to exclusively use their target language for the duration of the program.
Locations
There are 38 Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad, located in 17 countries across 5 continents:
*School in
Argentina:
Buenos Aires and
Córdoba
*School in
Brazil:
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...
,
Florianópolis
Florianópolis () is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil. The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as well as part of the mainland. It has a populat ...
, and
Niteroi
*School in
Cameroon:
Yaoundé
*School in
Chile:
Concepción,
La Serena,
Santiago,
Temuco,
Valdivia, and
Valparaíso
*School in
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
:
Beijing,
Hangzhou, and
Kunming
Kunming (; ), also known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The headquar ...
*School in
France:
Paris,
Poitiers
Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetàe'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou. In 2017 it had a population of 88,291. Its agglomerat ...
, and
Bordeaux
*School in
Germany:
Berlin,
Potsdam and
Mainz
*School in
India:
Delhi
*School in
Italy:
Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...
and
Florence
*School in
Israel:
Beer Sheva
Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...
*School in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
:
Tokyo
*School in
Jordan:
Amman
Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...
*School in
Morocco:
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
*School in
Russia:
Irkutsk
Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and mn, Эрхүү, ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is ...
,
Moscow, and
Yaroslavl
*School in
Spain:
Cordoba,
Getafe,
Logroño, and
Madrid
*School in
Uruguay:
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
*School in
United Kingdom:
Oxford
There was also a school in
Alexandria, Egypt until it closed after being evacuated during the
2011 revolution. The school in Egypt was replaced with a school in
Rabat, Morocco, which opened in 2016.
Rankings
The 2011 ''
Princeton Review'' ranked Middlebury's study abroad programs as the 6th most popular in the United States.
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See also
* Language school
References
External links
C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad
Middlebury Language Schools
Middlebury College
Monterey Institute of International Studies
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