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Ready to explore the place that could be your home for the next four years? Visiting F&M is by far the best way to get a feel for day-to-day life on our campus. Our Admission team is ready to help you build your visit to suit your needs.

Visit Opportunities

Step on campus and visualize yourself as one of F&M’s forward-looking scholars, inventors, leaders, artists, and athletes. Join us for a student-guided tour of our beautiful, 100-acre campus, learn more about the admission process through an information session, or both! Virtual visit opportunities are also available.

PLAN YOUR VISIT

Animal Behavior/Vivarium Campus Visit Days

Curious to learn more about our animal behavior studies major and our vivarium? We'll be offering visits on:

  • February 28
  • April 11

10- 10:50 a.m.: Neuroscience Class Visit with Professor Jinks (family members invited to meet with  Professor Lacy in the Neuroscience Lab)

11 - 11:50 a.m.: Primate Training Class Visit with Professor Lacy (family members invited to meet with Professor Jinks in the Neuroscience Lab)

12 - 12:30 p.m.: Panel with students majoring in Neuroscience and/or Animal Behavior, which are both majors in the Biological Foundations of Behavior program at F&M

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch in the Dining Hall with students majoring in neuroscience and/or animal behavior studies (majors in our Biological Foundations of Behavior program)

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.: Vivarium Tour with Director Lillian Basom

3 - 4 p.m.: Campus Tour 

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Admitted Student Events & Visits

Congratulations on your admission to F&M! Ready to get a closer look at what it's like to be an F&M student? We're hosting a variety of events for you and your family, including Admitted Student Days on April 4 and April 12. 

Log in to your admitted student portal and go to the "Events and Visits" tab to view all of our opportunities! You will need your portal login information.

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Tour F&M From Home

Can’t get to campus? We'll bring the F&M campus to you! Use our interactive campus map to “walk around” the College grounds and take a virtual tour of F&M. Or, let two F&M tour guides take you on a virtual tour around campus.

Lombardo Welcome Center

The Samuel N. and Dena M. Lombardo Welcome Center is F&M’s welcoming front door to prospective students, families, alumni and friends visiting our campus.

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Dining & Staying in Lancaster


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Getting to Lancaster


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Explore Lancaster

F&M’s extraordinary home city of Lancaster is a rich hub of arts and culture filled with experiences for every taste and preference — all within safe walking distance of campus.

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