Young Franco was a math wiz who interned at Lockheed Martin, but dropped out of UCLA during his freshman year. 

Ten years later, the actor went back to school and has made a hobby of picking up college degrees. After graduating from UCLA in just two years, he moved to New York and enrolled at NYU for filmmaking, Columbia University and Brooklyn College for fiction writing, Warren Wilson College in North Carolina for a low-residency poetry program, and Yale for a Ph.D. in English.

He's also taught screenplay-writing and directing at UCLA, USC, NYU, and Columbia.