Franklin College's high-impact, engaging liberal arts and sciences experience fosters independent thinking, innovation, leadership and action in ever-changing professions and in a globally connected world. The college offers a bachelor of arts degree in more than 50 majors from 25 academic disciplines. It also offers four cooperative programs and 11 pre-professional programs. With nearly 1,000 full-time students, personal attention is the cornerstone of the Franklin College experience, as is the commitment to offering students a global perspective. Franklin College offers several unique programs to its students. TheStatehouseFile.com is a publication of the Franklin College Pulliam School of Journalism. Students work side-by-side with professional journalists, prepare for careers as reporters and develop the skills to thrive in the ever-changing media industry. The publication provides Hoosiers and subscribing Indiana media organizations with news from the Indiana Statehouse. Housed inside the Indiana Statehouse, it is the only publication of its kind in the state. The college offers a unique opportunity in the life sciences field with its accelerated program to the master's in public health (MPH), in partnership with the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Students can earn a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in public health in less time and at a lower cost than they would by pursuing the degrees separately, without dilution of the content of either program. Franklin College and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) have partnered to develop a collaborative 3/2 Engineering Program in which participants study at Franklin for three years in a broad liberal arts environment and then at IUPUI for two years under a rigorous engineering curriculum. Those who successfully complete all courses earn two degrees, a bachelor of arts from Franklin after the fourth year and a bachelor of science in engineering from IUPUI's Purdue School of Engineering and Technology after the fifth year. Franklin College also offers a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to delivering a liberal arts and sciences curriculum. Students learn by doing and are given the tools needed to do things they never thought they could. One-hundred percent of students complete at least one internship or significant research project. The college's professional development office has a long history of assisting students gain meaningful employment, with ninety-five percent of students either employed or attending graduate school within six months of graduating. To learn more about Franklin College, visit www.FranklinCollege.edu.

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