Franklin Pierce University

Carnegie Foundation Classification

Baccalaureate Colleges — Arts & Sciences

General Characteristics

Highest offering	Doctoral degree
Calendar System	Semester
Years of college work required	N/A
Variable Tuition

Special Learning Opportunities

Distance Learning
ROTC — Army / Navy / Air Force	— / /
Study Abroad
Weekend College
Teacher Certification

Franklin Pierce University Academics

There’s never a reason to feel alone in your studies either, since there are academic support services like Learning Center, Reduced Course Load, Remedial Instruction, Study Skills Assistance, Tutoring and Writing Center. Franklin Pierce College is unique in its study options. Specifically, the university has a Distance Learning, Double Major, Dual Enrollment of High School Students, ESL, Honors Program, Independent Study, Internships, ROTC, Air Force, ROTC, Army, Student-Designed Major, Study Abroad, Teacher Certification, Visiting/Exchange Student Program and Washington Semester. In addition, when any student is looking for some counseling or other types of support, Alcohol/Substance Abuse Counseling, Campus Ministries/Chaplain, Career Counseling, Employment Service, Financial Aid Counseling, Freshman Orientation Program, Health Services, Personal Counseling and Placement Service can help. The university has disability services as well, so be sure to inquire about them if needed.

The following are the types of degrees and majors offered at Franklin Pierce College.

History:

History – General

Business, Management, & Marketing:

Accounting, Accounting/Finance, Business – General, Business Administration/Management, Finance/Banking, Management Information Systems, Marketing Management

Parks, Recreation, and Fitness:

Parks/Leisure Facilities Management, Sport/Fitness Administration

Psychology:

Psychology – General

Popular majors:

seventeen percent visual and performing arts, fifteen percent business per marketing, thirteen percent communications per journalism, eight percent english, six percent area and ethnic studies, six percent security and protective services, six percent social sciences, five percent history, five percent parks and recreation, five percent psychology

English Language and Literature:

English

Social Sciences:

Anthropology, Archaeology, Political Science/Government, Social Sciences – General, Sociology

Security and Protective Services:

Criminal Justice Studies

Health and Clinical Sciences:

Predentistry, Premedicine, Preveterinary Medicine

Communications & Journalism:

Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Communications/Rhetoric, Journalism, Mass Communications/Media Studies, Radio/Television

School of Visual and Performing Arts:

Acting, Art – General, Art History/Criticism/Conservation, Arts – General, Arts Management, Commercial/Advertising Art, Dance, Design/Visual Communications, Drama/Theater Arts, Fine/Studio Arts, Music – General, Music – General Performance, Music Management/Merchandising, Music Theory/Composition, Theater Design/Stagecraft

Biological and Biomedical Sciences:

Biology

Education:

Education – General

Mathematics:

Mathematics – General

Computer Science:

Computer Graphics, Computer Networking/Telecommunications, Computer Science, Computer/Information Sciences – General, Information Sciences/Systems, Information Technology

Public Administration and Service:

Social Work

The cost per credit hour (overall) was $770 Cost & Savings Calculator Financial Aid International students eligible for non-need-based aid last fall. Nonetheless, for non-international students, tutition fees are $23,710 Room & Board (on-campus) $7,990 Additional estimated expenses $2,440 Costs per credit hour $770 Cost & Savings Calculator Financial Aid International students eligible for non-need-based aid. Other additional expenses amounted to $2,440 Costs per credit hour $770 Cost & Savings Calculator Financial Aid International students eligible for non-need-based aid.

Franklin Pierce University Admissions

Admission policy is currently Percent applicants admitted: 74% and Percent of students who return for sophomore year: 66%. Remember that this can change at any time. Transfer student are not ignored. For example, there were one hundred and ninety-one total number of transfer students who applied and one hundred and three total number of transfer students who were admitted. This school did not report their application fee.

For priority students, financial aid applications are due no later than the 1st of March. The regular application due date was not reported. It is also very important to submit financial aid applications as quickly as possible, make sure to check with the university about the specific date for this year. Will you make it in time? Make sure to know when all the due dates and deadlines take place. SAT and ACT score reports are due the 1st of May and the SAT subject section score due date was not reported.

Franklin Pierce University Financial Aid

If you are not a need based student, non-need distribution for financial aid is determined by Academics, Alumni Affiliation, Athletics, Leadership, Minority Status and Music/Drama. Financial aid distribution is at fifty-two percent scholarships per grants and forty-eight percent loans per jobs. Financial aid for students is readily accessible at this school. Financial aid forms are FAFSA. In the same way, need based financial aid distribution is determined through Academics and Athletics.

Franklin Pierce University Students

The school’s size is approximately one thousand, six hundred and fifteen degree-seeking undergrads and five hundred and seven first-time degree-seeking freshmen. Moreover, it is part of an Rural setting, Small town (2,500 – 9,999) and Residential campus. The university is a Private, Liberal Arts College, Four-year, Coed, where 74 percent of the applicants were admitted, Regionally accredited and College Board member. Additionally, the student body consists of seventeen percent in-state students, eighty-three percent out-of-state students, zero percent part-time students, forty-six percent women, fifty-four percent men, less than one percent american indian per alaskan native, one percent asian per pacific islander, four percent black per non-hispanic, two percent hispanic, seventy-six percent white per non-hispanic, two percent non-resident alien, fourteen percent race per ethnicity unreported, one percent in top 10th of graduating class, twenty-one percent in top quarter of graduating class, fifty-one percent in top half of graduating class, four percent had h.s. gpa of 3.75 and higher, six percent had h.s. gpa between 3.5 and 3.74, eleven percent had h.s. gpa between 3.25 and 3.49, fifteen percent had h.s. gpa between 3.0 and 3.24, thirty-one percent had h.s. gpa between 2.5 and 2.99, thirty percent had h.s. gpa between 2.0 and 2.49 and three percent had h.s. gpa between 1.0 and 1.99. Franklin Pierce College offers Bachelor’s degrees.

This school features the Rural setting, Small town (2,500 – 9,999) and Residential campus. Students should note the housing policies: Guaranteed On-Campus Housing For All Undergraduates, ninety-four percent of first-year students live in college housing, eighty-five percent of all undergraduates live in college housing, Coed Housing, Apartments For Single Students, Special Housing For Disabled Students, twenty-JUN deadline for housing deposit, two hundred dollars amount of housing deposit, point zero , and First-time first-year students allowed to have car. Remarkably, the school is located 20 miles from Keene, 60 miles from Boston.Moreover, the university has many unique facilites such as graphics workshop, colonial archaeological dig site, glass blowing studio, ceramic kiln, black box theater.

Franklin Pierce University Athletics

The following sports can be found here:

• Men’s NCAA Division II, Men’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Men’s Scholarship Baseball
• Men’s NCAA Division II, Women’s NCAA Division II, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Basketball
• Men’s NCAA Division II, Women’s NCAA Division II, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Cross_country
• Men’s NCAA Division II, Women’s NCAA Division II, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Golf
• Men’s NCAA Division II, Women’s NCAA Division II, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Soccer
• Women’s NCAA Division II, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Softball
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Table_tennis
• Women’s NCAA Division II, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Volleyball