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Bennington College
Bennington College, founded in 1932, has built a reputation as one of the most academically unconventional liberal arts colleges in the country, with no formal grading system, no required core curriculum, and no academic departments in the traditional sense, instead organizing coursework around broader interdisciplinary "disciplines." The college's arts programs, particularly its writing, theater, and visual arts offerings, have produced a disproportionate number of prominent working artists and writers relative to Bennington's small size, reflecting the school's deep institutional commitment to arts education since its founding. Every Bennington student completes an extended off-campus "Field Work Term" internship each winter, a graduation requirement built directly into the college's academic calendar, giving students structured real-world work experience integrated into their degree rather than treated as an optional summer activity. The college's combination of its highly unconventional, self-directed academic structure and its particular strength in the arts has made Bennington one of the most distinctive small liberal arts colleges in the country, drawing students specifically seeking that unusual degree of academic freedom.
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Middlebury College
Middlebury College, founded in 1800, is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the country, and its foreign language programs are widely regarded as among the very best of any American college, anchored by the Middlebury Language Schools, an intensive immersion summer program requiring students to speak only their target language for the program's entire duration. The college's Bread Loaf School of English and its associated writers' conference, one of the oldest and most prestigious literary conferences in the country, have drawn major American writers to the Vermont campus for summer programming for nearly a century. Middlebury's rural Vermont setting and its ski team's strong competitive tradition, along with the college's proximity to significant skiing terrain, have made winter sports a significant part of campus culture, similar to several other elite New England liberal arts colleges in mountainous settings. The college's combination of genuinely elite liberal arts academics, its nationally leading foreign language immersion programs, and its historic literary conference tradition has made Middlebury one of the most distinctive top liberal arts colleges in the country.
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