Franklin University is a private university. The headquarters of this university is in Columbus, Ohio. Franklin University was founded in the year 1902 under the sponsorship of YMCA and the aim of establishing this university was to serve the adult students who wanted to finish their course and get a degree. Franklin University has more than 25 centers that are located in Midwestern United States and most of the students in recent years have become a part of their online courses. Franklin University has been ranked as the third largest private university in Ohio.

Brief history of Franklin University

Franklin University has been serving students over hundred years. The university was previously known as YMCA School of Commerce which in the 1933 changed to the Franklin University and later discontinued their affiliation with YMCA in the year 1964. In the year 1969, the university opened their first building which was called Frasch Hall and later in 1976, the university earned and acquired regional accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. In the year 1993, the university offered their first ever graduate program which was the Master of Business Administration.  Later in 1998, the Community College Alliance was formed; this was a program that was designed in order to ease the way for the students of the community college to transfer maximum number of credits of community college towards getting a bachelor’s degree from Franklin University. The university soon started offering their MBA courses at WSB Universities which are in Poland. The signing of the agreement with WSB Universities opened door for Franklin University to enter into educational agreements with universities in other countries. Franklin University provides programs at other international locations as well through agreements with other affiliated universities. The universities included are St. Clement of Ohrid University of Bitola in Bitola, Macedonia, Modern College of Business & Science in Oman are the names of few of those universities.Franklin then introduced their newest college which was the College of Health and Public Administration in 2011. Later in 2014, Franklin University acquired the Urbana University which was in Urbana, Ohio. The Health Learning Commission allowed and approved the request of Franklin University to offer their first doctoral courses, the Doctor of Health Administration, Doctor of Business Administration and Doctor of Professional Studies. Franklin University has come a long way since their inception and has been growing since then.

Academics

Franklin University has been beneficial for all the students who are adults to get back on track by completing their education and getting the necessary degree they want which has helped this university garner immense appreciation and which has resulted the university to expand and create their online portals where students around the world are accessing and learning from their online sites and gaining knowledge and their degree which has helped and made it so convenient for the adults especially ones who are working and studying at the same time. The university offers about five graduate degrees and 44 undergraduate degrees through their College of Business, College of Arts, College of Health & Public Administration and Science & Technology. All the programs that the university offers is also offered online and there are more than 895 of the students who belong from different universities take minimum one online class that they provide through their online site. Franklin University has collaborated and partnered with about 270 community colleges in order to deliver their bachelors degree course online to graduates of their college as well.

In addition to all the degree programs that have been mentioned above apart from them Franklin University offers and provides various other certificates and courses as well. The university currently offers workshops on career development, other professional certificates and also provides opportunities to the students for special learning such as colleges that are open on weekends. Franklin University caters to the working adults who are willing to study even after working or adults who have certain problems who work in the day and then come study at night. Most of the sessions and the classes that are provided to the adults are taken at night in order to accommodate their busy schedule because of their work. Franklin University provides their students with options as to how they want to take their course like 3-6-12 and 15 week formats. Franklin University has incorporated many measures and has come up with formats like these so that they can help the working adults to pursue their dream and to get their degree without any additional pressure which has made the Franklin University one of the most popular universities especially in Ohio.

Admissions

Franklin University accepts applications for admission throughout the year on a rolling basis and also accepts application forms online where students submit their applications and their transcripts from high school.  There have been over 90% students who are undergraduates who have transferred their credits from various other schools. The average ages of the students who study at the prestigious Franklin University are in their mid 30’s. Franklin University serves students from more than 70 countries around the world and has been planning to expand more because of their growing success.

In the year 2011, Franklin University was honored by Jobs magazine by naming and raking the university in their list of Military Friendly Schools in the year 2011. In the year 2010, the online program, Master of Business Administration that Franklin University provides was awarded the Best Value in Regionally Accredited Online MBA’s by the website GetEducated.com.  Franklin University has gained appreciation and has also been named as one of America’s Top Military Friend Universities and Colleges by the Military Advanced Education Magazine.

Financial Aid and Tuition

The associated fees and the tuition costs at the prestigious Franklin University is about $9,025 for the undergraduate students. The fees of the graduate students are slightly higher and are about $12,960. Franklin University provides various tuition payment plans as financial aid. Most of the students of the Franklin University have used minimum of one form of financial aid.