Franklin University Switzerland

HE Institution
Year of foundation: 
1969
Member since: 
29/05/2015
Franklin University Switzerland

Contact

Institutional postal address: 
Via Ponte Tresa 29, 6924 Sorengo (Lugano)
Region: 
Europe
Country: 
Switzerland
City: 
Sorengo
Institutional e-mail: 
Institutional phone: 
+ 41 91 986-3613

Mission / Vision

The mission of Franklin College is to provide a multi-cultural and international academic environment withink which students acquire the essential knowledge and critical, creative and analytical abilities necessary to attain success in their chosen careers and to live culturally enriched and rewarding lives.

Goals

Franklin College recognizes that leadership takes many forms. The College wishes to develop in its graduates those abilities that will allow an individual to exert a positive influence in exercising beneficial change, whether by example or direct action. Thus, Franklin graduates should:

  • be highly competent in a chosen discipline consonant with the expectations of a BA from a most selective institution of higher learning;
  • be articulate;
  • exhibit cultural competency in a variety of settings;
  • value cultures other than their own; and
  • exhibit social responsibility.

Main activities

Liberal Arts, Teaching, BA granting institution 

Partners

  • UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  • The Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP)

Sponsored by

  • Generalitat de Catalunya. Ministry of Business and Employment. Department of Research and Universities
  • Generalitat de Catalunya. Ministry for Foreign Action and Open Government