The 12-month cohort program presents a diversified sequence of courses, modules, seminars and independent study. Academic travel makes the world your study hall. The Taylor Institute takes a holistic approach to learning, combining theoretical rigor with practical experience, providing you with skills needed to fulfill your career goals.

The Professional Track is drawn up for each student to provide specialized study in your chosen professional field. The Taylor Institute will help you locate and design an internship, your bridge from the classroom to the workplace.

The Taylor Institute was founded in 2010 by Franklin College Switzerland as a center for graduate study and research in international management theory and practice. Funding for the Taylor Institute was provided by John R. Taylor, founder and CEO of FX Concepts. One of the world's leading traders of foreign exchange, Mr. Taylor is a long-time supporter of Franklin's commitment to bringing together students and scholars from multiple cultures to further higher learning in a central location.

The Taylor Institute faculty comes from various universities, international organizations and companies. All have on-going research agenda or are current managers in evolving professions. Innovation and international change management are recurring themes across the range of subjects taught.

A unique feature of the Taylor Institute Masters in International Management, the Professional Track is designed for each student to prepare for and enter into his or her chosen career field.

• Independent study will be guided by a professor or professional mentor with specialist knowledge in your selected sector.
• You, together with your academic mentor and working professionals, will prepare a seminar to be presented to the full cohort
• You will then follow an internship, which the Taylor Institute will help you to locate. This internship, lasting a minimum of two months, will have defined learning objectives, and fulfill a current objective of the employing organization or company.
• The following specializations are currently offered:
  • International Banking
  • Financial Markets
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Consulting
  • Sustainable Innovation
  • Family-owned enterprise management
  • Arts management

Palm trees in Switzerland? Located south of the Alps on the Italian border, Lugano offers a Swiss quality of life in a Mediterranean climate and culture.

• Lugano is one of three major Swiss financial centers, near to both Geneva and Zurich
• Located one hour from the fashion capital of Milan, near the manufacturing heartland of Northern Italy, and a short distance from the history and luxury of Florence and Venice.
• In the center of Europe, Lugano has easy access by rail and air to all major European financial, commercial and industrial capitals...
• Earn your Master's degree in Switzerland, home to major international organizations such as the International Red Cross and the United Nations.

The Taylor Institute builds on the forty-year tradition of Franklin College, an American liberal arts institution in an international environment. Franklin is fully accredited in the United States by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and its undergraduate degree is recognized in Switzerland by the Swiss University Conference.

Franklin College places extraordinary emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives, an emphasis designed to affect the direction and meaning of a student's college experience, life and career. A commitment to courses of study that are international in perspective and cross-cultural in content has been the cornerstone of our educational mission since our founding in 1969. In fact, we classify this need as the international imperative in education.