The Diplomat Way.
Dig Deeper. Explore Further.
When you become an F&M Diplomat, your influence reaches everywhere—the classroom and laboratory, the studio and stage, the playing field, the city of Lancaster and beyond. Because each step you take, each choice you make, expands into something greater.
To shape the world, start right where you are. That's the Diplomat way.
The World Needs Diplomats
Explore, Experience, and Succeed at F&M
Real-World Learning
Your ideas may start in the classroom, but they won’t be contained there. At F&M, you can connect the things you care about to meaningful experiences, including research, internships, volunteering, and more.
A Global Campus
We proudly embrace our global identity and commit ourselves to improving our cultural fluency. We demonstrate this commitment by recruiting students from around the world, emphasizing the transformative power of studying abroad, and creating opportunities to engage with a globalized Lancaster.
Success Beyond F&M
We’re a partner in your success on Day 1. Explore how we engage with students across all four class years — and discover how that commitment helps you land jobs in leading industries and gain admission to high-demand graduate and professional programs around the world.
Our Home: The City of Lancaster
F&M's extraordinary home city is an urban oasis. Lancaster, PA offers arts, culture, and experiences for every taste and preference and is full of extraordinary opportunities — all within safe walking distance of campus.
Discover the city »F&M Stories
July 18, 2025
F&M Students Launch Global Nutrition Nonprofit
F&M's global community of students brought together Jordan Samuels and Lyla Loria, co-founders of Fuel for Thought, a nonprofit that provides meals and educational resources to students in South Africa.
July 17, 2025
From Passion to Ph.D.: He Zhuo ’24 Found A Calling in Chemistry
Forging into the unknown to uncover new inspirations — that’s the Diplomat way. For He Zhuo ’24, this meant exploring different fields before discovering an unexpectedly acute interest in chemistry. Now, he’s pursuing a doctorate in chemistry at Vanderbilt University. “Majoring in chemistry at F&M provided me with a robust foundation in the subject,” Zhuo said.
July 14, 2025
F&M’s New President on Getting to Know the College: ‘The First Priority is to Listen’
As he steps into the role of president of Franklin & Marshall College, Andrew “Andy” Rich is spending time with members of the F&M community and learning what they value about being Diplomats. Rich was named Franklin and Marshall’s 17th president earlier this year, and his first official day in that role was July 12.