Do you want...
- Adventure and Exploration?
- Multicultural Engagement?
- Personal Growth?
- Expanded Horizons?
Join us for a Gap Year in Switzerland, the adventure of a lifetime!
Franklin University Switzerland’s Gap year or semester programs for fall and spring terms are perfect for you.
- Study safely in Switzerland, top ranked worldwide for handling COVID-19
- Switzerland ranks 3rd globally as most desirable Gap Year destination by the 2020 Gap Year Association Alumni Survey.
- Gain once-in-a-lifetime experiences that will shape your future and allow you to create your own life narrative.
- Work with Franklin’s wonderful professors both on campus and when traveling throughout Switzerland and Europe.
- Gain confidence and leadership skills, as well as multicultural perspectives and competencies.
- Form a tight knit community with your peers from 61 countries and make life-long connections.
FUS is the 6th most appealing Gap Year experience
Franklin ranks 6th as the most appealing Gap Year experience by the 2020 Gap Year Association Alumni Survey
Want to make a difference and change the world?
FRANKLIN is the place for you.
Location
Located in the heart of Europe, Franklin University Switzerland is an international university located in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino and city of Lugano. Lugano sprawls luxuriously amidst the alps along the shores of beautiful Lake Lugano.
A Gap Year abroad will impart valuable life skills, open doors to future opportunities, hone resumes and build life-long global friendships. Franklin’s Gap Year will help you develop group skills such as collaboration, negotiation, communication and leadership. Find your voice and build confidence for what comes next, whether college or career.
Tuition
Tuition and fees for the Gap Year are the same* as the first year of the Undergraduate program.
*Swiss/EU/EEA tuition is applicable to the Gap Year program.
