Benefits for Businesses

Grow Your Own Talent with CAP

The Career Advancement Program (CAP) is a dual-degree program offered jointly by Franklin University and partner community colleges. The program, offered in collaboration with employers as an innovative workplace benefit, is customized to meet the needs of your organization. 

CAP helps companies and organizations recruit, train and retain talent while making affordable, relevant education more accessible for working adults. CAP partners also get the administrative support your organization needs to manage all facets of the program, from student recruitment through bachelor’s degree completion.

Contact Us

Bill Chan
Vice President for Strategic Alliances
bill.chan@franklin.edu

Samantha Shear
Director of Community College Alliance + Domestic Locations
samantha.shear@franklin.edu

Boost Organizational Effectiveness

Upskilled employees rise to the challenge of improving results at your organization. 

Increase Employee Retention

Investments in training and development positively impact morale and organizational culture.

Maximize Benefits

Streamlined pathways and lower tuition costs help stretch reimbursement dollars.

Your Challenge + Our Solution

Recruiting and retaining top talent are two of the biggest challenges that employers face. According to Workforce magazine, 45% of companies surveyed on employee turnover indicated that costs are more than $10,000 per employee. In addition, a recent Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends Report revealed that companies struggle with developing leaders at all levels in the wake of a widespread skills gap.

A Career Advancement Program (CAP) partnership with Franklin University and your local community college strengthens your ability to enhance your employee offerings by providing affordable and innovative educational options. With CAP you can:

Maximize your tuition reimbursement benefit

Improve employee retention

Develop leaders within your organization

Connect Your Employees to the Career Advancement Track

The Career Advancement Program (CAP) is a dual-degree program offered jointly by Franklin University and community colleges. The program, offered in collaboration with employers as an innovative workplace benefit, is customized to meet the needs of your organization. CAP helps companies and organizations recruit, train and retain talent while making affordable, relevant education more accessible for working adults.

Earn an associate degree and a bachelor’s degree with a minor from accredited institutions

Follow a convenient, predictable class schedule with a combination of online coursework and on-site courses one night a week

Stay focused on completion with pre-determined, accelerated courses

Build stronger team connections and greater ownership of organizational culture throughout the cohort-based program

Save money with a Franklin University tuition discount and free books

Benefit from seamless admission, credit transfer and transcripting

Building on 3+1

The Career Advancement Program (CAP) is rooted in the 3+1 partnership between community colleges and Franklin University. As part of the 3+1 program, students pay the partner community college rate for the associate degree and up to 30 additional hours of bridge courses. Students then transfer 75% of the total credits required for the bachelor’s degree and finish the remaining courses with Franklin, Ohio’s #1 nonprofit provider of online degrees.1

Over the years, this partnership has contributed to the strengthening of our local workforce by providing educational options for residents who might otherwise leave the community to further their education.

As part of partnering with your organization, we can customize the program to meet your needs by offering tailored 3+1 pathways in a variety of areas including business, healthcare and technology. Also as your CAP partner, you can count on our support to:

Manage all facets of the program from student recruitment through bachelor’s degree completion

Offer 1:1 preliminary evaluations and information sessions

Provide your associates with dedicated admissions and academic advisors

Case Study

Columbus State Community College, Franklin University + Huntington

The Exact Track 3+1 dual degree business program provides a combination of education, support and real-world experience, and its convenient workplace location helps eliminate some of the hurdles for students hoping to further their education.

Creating Collaborative Solutions

"We are proud to partner with Columbus State and Franklin University to create a unique model that brings higher education directly into the workplace. Exact Track is on the cutting edge of workforce education solutions, and it enables Huntington to invest in the future of our colleagues so we can retain and promote top talent from within the bank."

STEVE STEINOUR
Chairman and CEO, Huntington

"Pairing our workforce needs and workers’ skills is one of the most important things we can do to help people be successful in their personal goals while giving job creators the talent they need to grow. The partnership Huntington has formed with Columbus State and Franklin University is a leading example of the type of employer engagement we need to strengthen our workforce and move our economy forward."

JON HUSTED
Lieutenant Governor, State of Ohio

"As a result of the unique access to education provided by the Career Advancement Program, employees will gain the skill sets to advance their company and enrich the lives of their families and themselves."

DR. DAVID DECKER
President, Franklin University