Franklin and Marshall College (F&M)

Franklin & Marshall is a residential college dedicated to excellence in undergraduate liberal education. Its aims are to inspire in young people of high promise and diverse backgrounds a genuine and enduring love for learning, to teach them to read, write, and think critically, to instill in them the capacity for both independent and collaborative action, and to educate them to explore and understand the natural, social and cultural worlds in which they live. In so doing, the College seeks to foster in its students qualities of intellect, creativity, and character, that they may live fulfilling lives and contribute meaningfully to their occupations, their communities, and their world.

Since 1787, Franklin & Marshall College has provided students of high promise and diverse backgrounds with a cooperative learning environment, where professors inspire students to go beyond their expectations. We are an outstanding liberal arts college with a stellar academic program.

Two-thirds of our students engage in directed research under the guidance of faculty, and students at F&M receive $500,000 in research support each year. We're an undergraduate liberal arts college with a graduate school mentality.

Our students have access not only to some of the best faculty in their fields, but also to more than 10 centers and institutes that provide opportunities to extend their classroom experience into the real world. We're a small college with big resources.

At Franklin & Marshall, housing is more than just a place to live. It's a place to learn.

Franklin & Marshall's College House system is a blend of the academic and the social, of opportunity and discipline, of friendship and service. And it is governed by the students, with the advice and oversight of faculty dons and prefects, whose House offices ensure a continual connection between the College's academic vision and students' practical needs.

The goal is to get students involved with college life beyond the classroom, to learn to make their own way, both socially and academically.

Franklin & Marshall College's commitment to individualized learning, to the mind-expanding power of the liberal arts and to academic excellence threads its way through the College House system.

Downtown Lancaster is a hub of culture and arts filled with art galleries, historical buildings and hot nightspots. And it's all within walking distance of campus.

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