conference is administered by director Michael Collier and assistant director Jennifer Grotz. Many prominent members of society have been associated with the Writers' Conference.
=== Reputation and rankings ===
In 2026, U.S. News & World Report ranked Middlebury as tied for 13th out of 211 liberal arts college overall in the U.S. Middlebury tied for 17th in "Best Undergraduate Teaching", and 30th for "Best Value" among liberal arts colleges for 2025."
Washington Monthly ranked the school 17th out of 194 in its 2024 liberal arts college rankings.
The 2022 Parchment student choice college ranking, which tracks student college acceptances of students accepted to multiple schools in order to reveal preference for their chosen school compared to other schools, ranks Middlebury as 47th of 1055 colleges.
== Admissions ==
The Carnegie Foundation classifies Middlebury as a "more selective" institution. For the class of 2026, the college offered admission to 1,955 students out of an applicant pool of 13,028, yielding …
