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{{Short description|Private college in Haverford, Pennsylvania, US}}
{{Use American English|date=September 2025}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Haverford College
 | image                  = Formal Seal of Haverford College, Haverford Township, PA, USA.svg
 | image_upright          = .7
 | former_name            = The Haverford School (1833–1856)<ref>{{cite web |title=Haverford College |url=https://lowermerionhistory.org/?page_id=143181 |publisher=Lower Merion Historical Society |access-date=5 February 2023 |archive-date=5 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205165246/https://lowermerionhistory.org/?page_id=143181 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 | caption                = 
 | motto                  = ''Non doctior, sed meliore doctrina imbutus''
 | mottoeng               = "Not more learned, but steeped in a higher learning"
 | top_free_label         = College newspaper
 | top_free               = {{ubl|''The Clerk''|''The Bi-College News''}}
 | established            = {{start date and age|1833}}
 | type                   = [[Private university|Private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]]
 | religious_affiliation  = None<br />(formerly [[Quakers#Hicksite–Orthodox split|Orthodox Quakers]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://legacy.earlham.edu/~fahe/mappage.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214120706/http://legacy.earlham.edu/~fahe/mappage.htm|url-status=dead|title=Friends Institutions|first=Eric|last=Jones|archivedate=December 14, 2012|website=legacy.earlham.edu}}</ref>
 | academic_affiliations  = {{ubl|[[Consortium on Financing Higher Education|COFHE]]|[[Quaker Consortium]]|Tri-College Consortium}}
 | endowment              = $706.5 million (2024)<ref name=endowment>{{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2024 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2024 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY23 to FY24, and FY24 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student |date=February 12, 2025 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 12, 2025 |format=XLSX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212074654/https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |archive-date=February 12, 2025 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | president              = [[Wendy Raymond]]<ref name="raymondphilly">Snyder, Susan (7 December 2018). [https://www.philly.com/news/haverforddavidsoncollegepresidentwendyraymond-20181207.html With 'grace and invitation,' Haverford's new president has much to teach], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''</ref>
 | undergrad              = 1,435<ref name=Facts>{{cite web |title=About Haverford |url=https://www.haverford.edu/about |publisher=Haverford College |access-date=September 4, 2022}}</ref>
 | city                   = [[Haverford, Pennsylvania|Haverford]] community<br />[[Haverford Township, Pennsylvania|Haverford Township]]<br />[[Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania|Lower Merion Township]]
 | state                  = [[Pennsylvania]]
 | country                = United States
 | coordinates            = {{coord|40|00|35|N|75|18|26|W|type:edu|display=title,inline}}
 | campus                 = [[Suburb]]an
 | campus_size            = {{convert|216|acre|km2}}
 | free_label             = Acceptance rate:
 | free                   = 12.4%<ref>{{cite web |title=The Class of 2028 |url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile |website=Office of Admission |publisher=Haverford College |access-date=May 5, 2025}}</ref>
 | sporting_affiliations  = [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]] – [[Centennial Conference|CC]]
 | nickname               = [[Haverford College Fords|Fords]]
 | mascot                 = Black Squirrel<ref>{{cite journal |title=Logo History – Haverford Athletics |url=https://www.haverfordathletics.com/information/History_and_Traditions/logo_history |website=Haverford College Athletics |access-date=27 November 2023 |archive-date=9 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209192129/https://www.haverfordathletics.com/information/History_and_Traditions/logo_history |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 | website                = {{URL|https://www.haverford.edu/|haverford.edu}}
 | logo                   = Haverford College logo.svg
 | logo_upright           = .7
 | faculty                = 165<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty Statistics |url=https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/President/Faculty-Statistics-2017-18.pdf |website=Office of Institutional Research |publisher=Haverford College |access-date=June 4, 2018}}</ref>
 | colors                 = {{color box|#981E32}} {{color box|black}} {{colorbox|#747678}} <br>Red, black, and grey<ref>{{cite web |title=Graphic Identity Standards and Guidelines |url=https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/Communications/Visual-Identity-Guidelines.pdf |publisher=Haverford College |access-date=28 August 2020}}</ref>
}}

'''Haverford College''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|æ|v|ər|f|ər|d}} {{respell|HAV|ər|fərd}}) is a [[private university|private]] [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]] in [[Haverford, Pennsylvania]], United States. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the [[Religious Society of Friends]] (Quakers). Haverford began accepting non-Quakers in 1849 and women in 1980.

The college offers [[Bachelor of Arts]] and [[Bachelor of Science]] degrees in 31 majors across [[humanities]], [[social science]]s and [[natural science]]s disciplines. It is a member of the Tri-College Consortium, which includes [[Bryn Mawr College|Bryn Mawr]] and [[Swarthmore College|Swarthmore]] colleges, as well as the [[Quaker Consortium]], which includes those schools as well as the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Academic Partnerships – Academics|url=http://www.haverford.edu/academics/academic_partnerships/|website=www.haverford.edu|access-date=2015-06-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624002853/http://www.haverford.edu/academics/academic_partnerships/|archive-date=2015-06-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oberlingroup.org/files/CCD_Projects_Pennsylvania.pdf |title=The Tri-College Consortium : Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore Colleges |publisher=Oberlingroup.org |access-date=2015-11-05 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235251/http://www.oberlingroup.org/files/CCD_Projects_Pennsylvania.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

All of the college's approximately 1,400 students are [[undergraduate]]s, and nearly all reside on campus.<ref>{{cite web|title=Office of Residential Life|url=https://www.haverford.edu/reslife|access-date=15 April 2019|website=Haverford College}}</ref> Social and academic life is governed by an [[academic honor code|honor code]] and influenced by Quaker philosophy. Its {{Convert|216|acre|adj=mid}} suburban campus has predominantly stone Quaker [[Colonial Revival architecture]].  The college's athletics teams compete as [[Haverford Fords|the Fords]] in the [[Centennial Conference]] of [[NCAA Division III]].

== History ==
Haverford College was founded in 1833 by members of the Orthodox [[Philadelphia Yearly Meeting]] of the Religious Society of Friends to ensure an education grounded in [[Quaker]] values for young Quaker men. It was the earliest Quaker liberal arts college.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kimball|first=Elizabeth|date=2011|title=Commonplace, Quakers, and the Founding of Haverford School|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23064015|journal=Rhetoric Review|volume=30|issue=4|pages=372–388|doi=10.1080/07350198.2011.604609 |jstor=23064015 |s2cid=144967669 |issn=0735-0198|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The college's seal bore the effigy of [[William Penn]], which effigy remains on the seal.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bronner |first1=Edwin B. |title=William Penn and Haverford |journal=Horizons |volume=80 No.2 |issue=Spring 1983 |pages=14 |url=https://scholarship.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/531fec13-a0a8-4460-83fd-f9ed0ac33319/content |access-date=11 December 2025}}</ref> In 1849 it opened enrollment to non-Quakers.<ref>{{cite Collier's|wstitle = Haverford College}}</ref> Originally an all-male institution, Haverford began admitting female transfer students in 1969 and became fully co-educational in 1980. The first woman to graduate (the wife of a faculty member) was a member of the class of 1971. The first Black student to graduate from Haverford, Osmond Pitter, a [[Jamaica]]n Quaker, did so in 1926. He became a doctor and returned to practice medicine in his native land.<ref name="Facts" /><ref name="auto">{{cite web |last1=Scharff |first1=Emma |title=Paul Moses in Context: The Early History of Black Haverfordians |date=August 2023 |url=https://haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/Library/HaverfordLibrary-Paul-B-Moses-Catalog.pdf |website=Paul B. Moses: Haverford Graduate, Trailblazing Art Historian|publisher=Haverford College |access-date=14 September 2024 |pages=3–5}}</ref> The second (and first [[African-American]] to receive a [[bachelor's degree]]) was [[Paul B. Moses]], class of 1951, who became an [[art history]] professor at the [[University of Chicago]]. During the intervening quarter century, a number of other Black men, including [[Howard Thurman]], enrolled as graduate students.<ref name="auto"/>

For most of the 20th century, Haverford's total enrollment was kept below 300, but the college went through two periods of expansion during and after the 1970s, reaching a total of about 1350 students in 2020. [[Thomas R. Tritton]] was president of the college between 1997 and 2007 and oversaw the construction of several new buildings, including the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center and the Douglas B. Gardner Integrated Athletic Center.<ref name="Facts" />

In the fall of 2020, much of the student body went on strike, sparked by anger at the administration's response to the [[killing of Walter Wallace]] in Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite news|last = Snyder|first = Susan|title = Haverford students on strike after college officials' comments on Walter Wallace Jr. death|newspaper = The Philadelphia Inquirer|location = Philadelphia|date = November 3, 2020|url = https://www.inquirer.com/education/haverford-protest-walter-wallace-police-strike-students-20201103.html}}</ref> The strike later expanded into a broader protest over concerns of racial injustice at the college. Some students opposed the strike, arguing that strikers were demonizing students who expressed concerns and suppressing dissenting views.<ref>{{cite news|last = Anderson|first = Greta|title = Students of color at Haverford College continue strike for racial equity|newspaper = Inside Higher Ed|date = November 9, 2020|url = https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/11/09/students-color-haverford-college-continue-strike-racial-equity}}</ref> After two weeks, the strike ended when the administration agreed to most of the organizers' demands.<ref>{{cite news|last = Snyder|first = Susan|title = Haverford students end strike after getting demands met|newspaper = The Philadelphia Inquirer|location = Philadelphia|date = November 11, 2020|url = https://www.inquirer.com/education/haverford-college-campus-strike-students-racial-justice-20201111.html}}</ref>

[[Wendy Raymond]] has been president of the college since 2019.<ref name="raymondphilly" /> On May 7, 2025, testifying at a hearing of the [[United States House Committee on Education and Workforce]], Raymond was questioned regarding her handling of [[antisemitism]] on campus, and was criticized in part because she repeatedly refused to answer questions about aggregate statistics on students who were suspended or otherwise disciplined by the college for antisemitic conduct.<ref name="stat">Aliya Schneider (7 May 2025). [https://www.philly.com/news/haverforddavidsoncollegepresidentwendyraymond-20181207.html "Haverford president gets the worst of the grilling at congressional hearing on antisemitism"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''</ref> As a result, Representative [[Ryan Mackenzie]] of Pennsylvania threatened to withdraw federal funding from the college.<ref name="stat"/>

== Honor code ==
In 1897, the students and faculty of Haverford voted to adopt an [[academic honor code|honor code]] to govern academic affairs. Since 1963, every student has been allowed to schedule his or her own final exams. Take-home examinations are also standard at Haverford and may include strict instructions such as time limits, prohibitions on using assigned texts or personal notes, and [[calculator]] usage. All students are bound to follow these instructions by the code.<ref>{{cite web|title = The Code {{!}} Honor Council|url = http://honorcouncil.haverford.edu/the-code/|website = honorcouncil.haverford.edu|access-date = 2015-06-21}}</ref>

[[File:Haverfordfounders.jpg|thumb|Founders Hall, completed in 1833]]

Originally conceived as a code of academic honesty, the honor code had expanded by the 1970s to govern social interactions.  The code does not list specific rules of behavior, but rather emphasizes a philosophy of mutual trust, concern and respect, as well as genuine engagement, that students are expected to follow.  A student (or other community member) who feels that another has broken the code, is encouraged not to look the other way but rather to confront and engage in a dialogue with the potential offender, before taking matters to an honor council which can help mediate the dispute.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|title = What is the Code? {{!}} Honor Council|url = https://honorcouncil.haverford.edu/the-code/what-is-the-code/|website = honorcouncil.haverford.edu|access-date = 2015-06-21}}</ref>

Every student is required to sign a pledge agreeing to the honor code prior to matriculation. The honor code is entirely student-run. It originated with a body of students who felt it necessary and it is amended and ratified by current students annually at an event called "Plenary".<ref name=":1" /> Student government officers administer the code and all academic matters are heard by student juries. More severe matters are addressed by administrators. Abstracts from cases heard by students and joint administrator-student panels are distributed to all students by several means, including as print-outs in mailboxes. The trial abstracts are made anonymous by the use of [[pseudonyms]] who are often characters from entertainment or history.<ref name=":1" />

The honor code failed to be ratified in 2013, 2018, and 2023 although on all occasions it was reinstated following special assemblies of the student body.<ref>{{cite web|title = Honor Code failure spurs uncertainty|url = https://haverfordclerk.com/honor-code-failure-spurs-uncertainty/|website = haverfordclerk.com| date=28 February 2013 |access-date = 2020-12-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = Honor Code Expires, is Replaced By Administration's 'Interim Procedures'|url = https://haverfordclerk.com/the-honor-code-failed-what-now/|website = haverfordclerk.com| date=5 March 2018 |access-date = 2019-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = Splenary 2023: A Photo Recap|url = https://haverfordclerk.com/splenary-2023-a-photo-recap/|website = haverfordclerk.com| date=3 April 2023 |access-date = 2023-04-14}}</ref>

== Academics ==

Haverford offers [[Bachelor of Arts]] and [[Bachelor of Science]] degrees in 31 majors across [[humanities]], [[social science]]s and [[natural science]]s.<ref name="curriculum">{{Cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/academics/curriculum.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307030923/http://www.haverford.edu/academics/curriculum.php|url-status=dead|title=Haverford College: Curriculum|archivedate=March 7, 2011|website=www.haverford.edu}}</ref> All departments require a [[senior thesis]], project or research for graduation,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/academics/ |title=Academics &#124; Haverford College |publisher=Haverford.edu |access-date=2015-11-05}}</ref> and many departments also have junior-level [[seminar]] or year-long project such as in [[biology]] (superlab) and [[chemistry]] (superlab).<ref>{{cite web|title = Biology – Academic Programs|url = https://www.haverford.edu/biology/academic-programs|website = www.haverford.edu|access-date = 2016-01-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/chem/curriculum/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307140240/http://www.haverford.edu/chem/curriculum/|url-status=dead|title=Department of Chemistry : Haverford College|archivedate=March 7, 2011|website=www.haverford.edu}}</ref>  The college also maintains a distribution requirement, spreading course work in all three areas of [[humanities]], [[social sciences]] and [[natural sciences]], in addition to major course works.<ref name="curriculum" /> Its most popular majors, by 2021 graduates, were:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=haverford&s=all&id=212911#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Haverford College |access-date=February 9, 2023}}</ref>
::Chemistry (34)
::Computer science (31)
::Economics (31)
::Political science & government (29)
::Biology/biological sciences (27)
::Psychology (25)
::English language & literature (21)
::Mathematics (20)

===Consortium===
Haverford's consortium relationship with Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and the University of Pennsylvania (the [[Quaker Consortium]]) greatly expands its course offerings. Haverford and Bryn Mawr have a particularly close relationship (the Bi-College Consortium), with over 2,000 students cross-registering between the two schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/academics/academic-partnerships|title=Academic Partnerships|website=haverford.edu}}</ref> The campuses are only 1 mile apart and a shuttle called the Blue Bus runs frequently back and forth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/transportation/blue-bus-bi-co|title=Blue Bus: Bi-Co - Bryn Mawr College|website=brynmawr.edu}}</ref> Some departments, such as Religion and Music, are housed at Haverford, while others like Theatre and Growth and Structure of Cities are at Bryn Mawr. Students can major in these departments from both colleges. Furthermore, students of one of the Tri-Collegiate Consortium Schools (Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford) are allowed to pursue a major in a subject at a Tri-Collegiate institution apart from the one they are a student of.

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|+ Fall Admission Statistics
|-
!&nbsp;
!2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2027|title=The Class of 2027|access-date=2024-03-01}}</ref>
!2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2026|title=The Class of 2026|access-date=2023-10-01|archive-date=2023-10-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001043259/https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2026|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
!2021<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2025|title=The Class of 2025|access-date=2023-12-06|archive-date=2023-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206121455/https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2025|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
!2020<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2024|title=The Class of 2024|access-date=2023-04-23|archive-date=2023-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423042808/https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2024|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
!2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/haverford-admits-class-2023|title=Haverford Admits the Class of 2023|access-date=2023-09-22|archive-date=2023-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922083225/https://www.haverford.edu/admission/haverford-admits-class-2023|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
!2018<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/haverford-admits-class-2022|title=Haverford Admits the Class of 2022|website=haverford.edu|access-date=2023-12-08|archive-date=2023-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208094439/https://www.haverford.edu/admission/haverford-admits-class-2022|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
!2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/haverford-admits-class-2021|title=Haverford Admits the Class of 2021 {{!}} Haverford College|website=haverford.edu|access-date=2017-10-19|archive-date=2017-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019110454/https://www.haverford.edu/admission/haverford-admits-class-2021|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
!2016<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/applying/class-2020|title=The Class of 2020 {{!}} Haverford College|website=haverford.edu|access-date=2023-12-08|archive-date=2023-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208105845/https://www.haverford.edu/admission/applying/class-2020|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
!2015<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/President/Haverford-CDS-2015-16.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-03-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307015838/https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/President/Haverford-CDS-2015-16.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-07}} Haverford College Common Data Set. Retrieved March 2, 2016.</ref>
!2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/admission/applying/class_of_2018_profile.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317154609/http://www.haverford.edu/admission/applying/class_of_2018_profile.php|url-status=dead|title=Class Of 2018 Profile - Office of Admission|archivedate=March 17, 2015|website=www.haverford.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/president/files/ir/CDS2014_2015.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421214249/http://www.haverford.edu/president/files/ir/CDS2014_2015.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Haverford College – Office of the President |archivedate=April 21, 2015|website=www.haverford.edu}}</ref>
!2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/president/files/ir/CDS2013_2014.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150421214251/http://www.haverford.edu/president/files/ir/CDS2013_2014.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-04-21 |title=Info |website=haverford.edu |access-date=2019-05-16}}</ref>
|-
! Applicants
|{{center|6,393}}
|{{center|5,658}}
|{{center|5,332}}
|{{center|4,539}}
|{{center|4,968}}
|{{center|4,682}}
|{{center|4,424}}
|{{center|4,067}}
|{{center|3,467}}
|{{center|3,496}}
|{{center|3,585}}
|-
! Admits
|{{center|825}}
|{{center|804}}
|{{center|952}}
|{{center|835}}
|{{center|801}}
|{{center|877}}
|{{center|859}}
|{{center|871}}
|{{center|852}}
|{{center|861}}
|{{center|842}}
|-
! Admit rate
|{{center|12.9%}}
|{{center|14.2%}}
|{{center|17.8%}}
|{{center|18.4%}}
|{{center|16.1%}}
|{{center|18.7%}}
|{{center|19%}}
|{{center|21%}}
|{{center|24.6%}}
|{{center|24.6%}}
|{{center|23.5%}}
|-
! Enrolled
|{{center|374}}
|{{center|363}}
|{{center|411}}
|{{center|343}}
|{{center|362}}
|{{center|357}}
|{{center|349}}
|{{center|352}}
|{{center|346}}
|{{center|340}}
|{{center|333}}
|-
! SAT 25th–75th percentile
|
|
|
|
|{{center|1390–1540}}
|{{center|1390–1530}}
|{{center|1390–1530}}
|{{center|1980–2280}}
|{{center|1990–2300}}
|{{center|1990–2240}}
|{{center|1970–2240}}
|-
!ACT 25th–75th percentile
|
|
|
|
|{{center|32-34}}
|{{center|32-34}}
|{{center|31-34}}
|{{center|31-34}}
|{{center|31–34}}
|{{center|31–34}}
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''[[U.S. News & World Report|U.S. News]]'' deemed Haverford's admissions "most selective," with the class of 2026 acceptance rate being 14.2%.<ref name=":4">{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2026|title=The Class of 2026|website=haverford.edu|access-date=January 11, 2023|archive-date=October 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001043259/https://www.haverford.edu/admission/class-profile-2026|url-status=dead}}</ref> Applying for admission to the class of 2026 were 5,658 applicants; 804 were admitted. Of those admitted submitting such data, 96% were in the top 10% of their high school class and 100% were in the top 20% of their high school. Of those admitted to the class of 2026, 54.5% identified themselves as persons of color, and 14% of those admitted were first generation college students.<ref name=":4" /> The college is need-aware for domestic applicants, having ended its [[need-blind]] policy in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jaschik|first1=Scott|title=Haverford College shifts from need-blind to need-aware admissions|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/27/haverford-college-shifts-need-blind-need-aware-admissions|accessdate=May 14, 2018|work=Inside Higher Ed|date=June 27, 2016|archive-date=May 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514142032/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/27/haverford-college-shifts-need-blind-need-aware-admissions|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Rankings ===
{{Infobox US university ranking
| USNWR_LA = 24
| Wamo_LA = 6
| Forbes = 72
| THE_WSJ = 36
}}

Haverford is ranked 8th among liberal arts colleges in the 2022 ''Wall Street Journal''/''Times Higher Education'' College Rankings,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-rankings-list-2022-11632246093?mod=searchresults_pos2&page=1|title=Explore the Full WSJ/THE 2022 College Rankings List {{!}} Filter our 2022 rankings or create your own with the customization tool|work=[[Wall Street Journal]] |access-date=September 26, 2021}}</ref> tied for 24th out of 207 U.S. liberal arts colleges in the 2025 "Best Colleges" ranking by ''[[U.S News & World Report]]'', and ranked 16th for "Best Value" and tied at 14th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching" out of the 207 liberal arts colleges.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/haverford-college-3274/overall-rankings |title=Haverford College Rankings |work=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=September 27, 2020}}</ref> ''[[Washington Monthly]]'' ranked Haverford 6th in 2024 among 194 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2024 Liberal Arts Colleges Ranking |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024-college-guide/liberal-arts/ |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=Washington Monthly |language=en-US}}</ref> The college was ranked 72nd across 500 universities and colleges in the 2024–25 edition of ''[[Forbes]]''{{-'}} "Top Colleges", and 18th among liberal arts colleges alone.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Haverford College |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/haverford-college/?list=top-colleges |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>  [[Niche (company)|Niche]] ranked the school the 7th best national liberal arts college for 2021.<ref>{{cite web|title=Niche College Rankings|url=https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-liberal-arts-colleges/|access-date=September 27, 2020|archive-date=November 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125224623/https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-liberal-arts-colleges/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Graduates===
According to the [[National Science Foundation]], Haverford is sixth among liberal arts college, and eighth among all colleges and universities in the United States, in the proportion of its graduates who went on to earn PhDs across all fields from 2008 to 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=Doctorates Awarded {{!}} Institutional Research |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/institutional-research/doctorates-awarded |website=Swarthmore College |date=8 July 2014 |access-date=September 27, 2020}}</ref> When limited to doctorates in science and engineering disciplines, Haverford ranks sixth among liberal arts colleges and tenth among all colleges and universities.

==Campus==
[[File:Founders Hall after snowfall.JPG|thumb|Founders Hall after snowfall]]

Haverford College is located on the [[Philadelphia Main Line|Main Line]] northwest of [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]]. The school is connected to [[Center City Philadelphia]] by the [[Paoli/Thorndale Line]] commuter rail system and [[Norristown High Speed Line]] (R100). The campus itself is situated in an affluent suburban neighborhood, adjacent to the [[Haverford School]],  the [[Merion Golf Club]] and the [[Merion Cricket Club]], one of the oldest country clubs in the United States. Nearby attractions within walking distance include various food markets, grocery stores, restaurants, and [[Suburban Square]], which hosts retail stores, restaurants and a local farmer's market.

The larger Southern portion of campus is in [[Haverford Township, Pennsylvania|Haverford Township]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/cousub/cs4204533144_haverford/DC20BLK_CS4204533144.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Haverford township, PA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2022-12-19|quote=Haverford Colg}}</ref> with a smaller Northern portion in [[Lower Merion Township]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/cousub/cs4209144976_lower_merion/DC20BLK_CS4209144976.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Lower Merion township, PA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2022-12-19|page=3 (PDF p. 4/5)|quote=Haverford College}}</ref>

===Buildings===
[[File:Cherry Trees around Haverford College Founders Hall.jpg|thumb|right|Cherry trees and Founders Hall]]
The college has more than 50 academic, athletic, and residential buildings, which are mostly stone and reflect Quaker and colonial design principles. The most recent additions are the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Science Center and the Douglas B. Gardner '83 Integrated Athletic Center (colloquially referred to as the GIAC). Two dorms, by [[Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects]], began housing freshman and upperclassman in the fall of 2012.

Haverford's Lutnick Library (formerly known as Magill Library) boasts more than a half million of its own volumes and has access to nearly two million more through its unusual Tripod computerized catalog system, which integrates its library with those of neighboring Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges. In addition to Lutnick's main resources, the college maintains three smaller music, science, and astronomy libraries and a number of special collections including the Quaker and Special Collections sections that include numerous rare books and other treasures such as the C.C. Morris (Class of 1904) Cricket Library.<ref name='MorrisLib'>{{cite web |url=http://www.haverford.edu/library/cricket/site_update/famous_Lester.htm |title=The C. C. Morris Cricket Library – Famous Cricketers – John A. Lester |access-date=February 14, 2007 |publisher=Haverford College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207071918/http://www.haverford.edu/library/cricket/site_update/famous_Lester.htm |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 
[[File:Haverford College - Cricket Pavilion.jpg|thumb|right|[[John Lester|John Ashby Lester]] Cricket Pavilion next to Cope's Field Cricket Pitch, which has a library with the Western Hemisphere's largest collection of cricket literature and memorabilia.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.haverford.edu/campus-map/239917#:~:text=C.%20C.-,Morris%20Cricket%20Library,Cricket%20Pavilion%20on%20Cope%20Field | title=C. C. Morris Cricket Library &#124; Campus Map &#124; Haverford College}}</ref>]]

In the fall of 2017, the college unveiled renovations to Ryan Gym, which now serves as a new Visual Culture, Arts, and Media facility (VCAM), housing the Visual Studies Minor, the Haverford Innovations Program, a Maker Arts Space, and the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and its Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives Initiative.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haverford.edu/visual-culture-arts-and-media|title=VCAM|website=haverford.edu|access-date=2019-03-06}}</ref> The project, designed by MSR Architects, earned a 2018 Education Facility Design Award of Excellence from the [[American Institute of Architects]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aia.org/showcases/186611-haverford-college-visual-culture-arts-and-m|title=Haverford College Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) Building - AIA|website=aia.org|access-date=2019-03-06|archive-date=2019-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111637/https://www.aia.org/showcases/186611-haverford-college-visual-culture-arts-and-m|url-status=dead}}</ref> The second phase of the college's Lives That Speak campaign involved a renovation of Magill Library, which began in Spring 2018 under the direction of Perry, Dean, Rogers Architects,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://perrydean.com/library_12_haverford-1|title=Library_12_Haverford|website=Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects|access-date=2019-03-06|archive-date=2019-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306234744/http://perrydean.com/library_12_haverford-1|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the library opened under the new name Lutnick Library in fall 2019.

===Haverford College Arboretum===
Comprising the entire campus, the [[Haverford College Arboretum]] is the oldest collegiate arboretum in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/facilities/resources.php#arboretum|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307084939/http://www.haverford.edu/facilities/resources.php#arboretum|url-status=dead|title=Haverford College: Facilities Management|archivedate=March 7, 2011|website=www.haverford.edu}}</ref> In 1834, a year after the college's founding, the English landscape gardener William Carvill was hired to design the plan for the campus. Carvill developed a design to replace the tilled fields, woodlots and pastures, using trees to frame and complement open spaces. He bordered the lanes with alleés of trees and planted groups of trees in odd numbers. Carvill also constructed grape arbors and a serpentine walk, reflecting the English landscape tradition of Sir [[Humphry Repton|Humphrey Repton]]. Carvill's mark is still evident today in the pastoral landscape which includes several original trees including a Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor, and Bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa, on Founders Green.

In 1901, a group of students and alumni formed the Campus Club to help preserve the campus landscape after discovering Carvill's original plan.  Their work eventually led to the founding of the Haverford College Campus Arboretum Association (now the Haverford College Arboretum Association) in 1974, which continues to perpetuate Carvill's original design. To date, the arboretum's {{convert|216|acre|km2}} contain a nature trail distancing 2.2 miles, a [[pinetum]] with 300 different conifers, a duck pond, historic trees of diverse species, sculpture, as well as flower and Asian gardens.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/Arboretum/collections.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008174715/http://www.haverford.edu/Arboretum/collections.php|url-status=dead|title=Haverford College: Arboretum|archivedate=October 8, 2010|website=www.haverford.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Haverford College Nature Trail |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pennsylvania/haverford-college-nature-trail |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=AllTrails.com}}</ref>

{{Panorama |image=The Haverford College duck pond through 3 seasons..png |height=200 |align=center |caption=[[Photomontage|montage]] of the Haverford duck pond through three months: October 1, 2007; November 21, 2007; December 6, 2007}}

===Housing===
Roughly 99% of the student body resides on campus, where housing options include apartments, themed houses and traditional dormitories. The minute fraction who choose to seek other accommodations do so nearby in neighboring townships. Approximately 60% of faculty also reside on campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/admission/why_haverford/ |title=Why Haverford &#124; Haverford College |publisher=Haverford.edu |date=2012-02-19 |access-date=2015-11-05}}</ref>

Themed housing options include [[Roslin House|La Casa Hispanica]], which "supports the endeavors of students actively engaged in organizing programs concerned with the cultures and civilizations of the Spanish-speaking world"; the Ira de A. Reid House, which seeks students active in the Black Students' League or members of the African Diaspora interested in the culture and politics of Africans; Cadbury house, which provides a substance-free and quiet living environment; and Yarnall, colloquially known as Nerd House, which hosts more introverted students who are fans of board and video games. Various housing and room arrangements exist, including suites of singles, doubles, and triples.

==Student life==

===Journalism===
Student publications include ''The Bi-College News'', a newspaper in collaboration with students at [[Bryn Mawr College]] that serves both campuses; ''The Clerk'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://haverfordclerk.com/ |title=The Clerk &#124; Haverford's Independent Student Newspaper |publisher=Haverfordclerk.com |access-date=2015-11-05}}</ref> an independent, online newspaper; ''Feathers & Fur'', a fashion magazine also in collaboration with students at [[Bryn Mawr College]]; ''Milkweed'', a student literary magazine; ''Without a (Noun''), the Haverford satire/humor magazine; ''Body Text'', an academic journal; ''Margin'', a student-edited creative magazine; and ''The Record'', the student yearbook.

== Athletics ==
{{main|Haverford Fords}}
[[File:Cope Field at Haverford.jpg|thumb|Cope Field at Haverford, Cricket Pitch (circa 1900)]]
[[File:Haverford College Bulletin, New Series, 7-8, 1908-1910 (1910) (14782706995).jpg|thumb|Haverford soccer team of 1910]]
Haverford College competes at the [[NCAA Division III]] level in the [[Centennial Conference]].

Haverford is home to the only [[Varsity team|varsity]] [[cricket]] team in the United States. Haverford's cricket team (started in 1833) is generally accepted as the first cricket club exclusively for Americans<ref name='Philly Club History'>{{cite web | url=http://www.philacricket.com/club/scripts/library/view_document.asp?NS=PUBLIC&DN=HIST | title = Philadelphia Cricket Club&nbsp;View Library Document: History | access-date=2007-03-30|last=Murdoch |first=Joseph |date=n.d. |publisher=[[Philadelphia Cricket Club]] |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928164219/http://www.philacricket.com/club/scripts/library/view_document.asp?NS=PUBLIC&DN=HIST <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-09-28}}</ref> and won The [[Intercollegiate sports team champions#Cricket|Intercollegiate Cricket Association]] (which existed from 1881 to 1924) championship 19 times.<ref name="TC19000428">{{cite journal|journal=The Crimson|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1900/4/28/cricket-cup-pthe-intercollegiate-cricket-cup/ |title=Cricket Cup|date=28 April 1900|access-date=2016-05-20}}</ref><ref name="NYT18850412">{{cite news|title= Intercollegiate Cricket |work=New York Times|date= 12 April 1885 |location=New York, NY}}</ref>

Its men's and women's [[track and field]] and [[cross country running|cross country]] teams have succeeded in their division, with men's cross country winning the 2010 Cross Country Division III National Championships.

Haverford's men's soccer team is among the nation's oldest, having won its first intercollegiate match in 1905 against [[Harvard College]], and in 2015 made it to quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Championships.

Haverford's [[fencing (sport)|fencing]] team has competed since the early 1930s and is a member of both the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association (MACFA) and the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA).

Several Haverford athletic teams are competitive in the Centennial Conference; for example, women's basketball won the 2014 Centennial Conference Championship and progressed to the second round of the NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament. Women's softball also won Centennial Conference titles in 2006, 2014, and in 2016. The 2016 team advanced to the Super Regional tournament. The Men's Lacrosse team won the Centennial Conference Championship in 2010.

Despite the rest of the Centennial Conference choosing to play sports in the spring of 2021 (as well as their academic rivals in the [[New England Small College Athletic Conference|NESCAC]]), Haverford decided to opt-out of competition due to [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19]] concerns.

==Notable people==
{{main|List of Haverford College people}}

<gallery class="center" classes="center" mode="nolines">
File:Juan williams 5212922 (cropped).jpg|[[Juan Williams]], journalist, author, and political analyst 
File:Photo of DDK in 2021.jpg|[[Daniel Dae Kim]], actor and producer
File:Howard Lutnick interviewed in Nothing Left Unsaid Podcast (2024) 02.png|[[Howard Lutnick]], businessman and [[United States Secretary of Commerce]]
File:Alex Karp attends AI Summit (53302457013) (cropped).jpg| [[Alex Karp]], Co-founder and [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] of [[Palantir Technologies]]
File:John C Whitehead.png|[[John C. Whitehead]], banker and former [[United States Deputy Secretary of State|US Deputy Secretary of State]]
File:Dave-barry-post-hunt-2011.jpg|[[Dave Barry]], author and columnist 
File:ChevyChaseMar10.jpg|[[Chevy Chase]], comedian
</gallery>

Among faculty, alumni, and associates are five [[Nobel Prize]] recipients, six [[Pulitzer Prize]] recipients, 20 [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]], and 85 [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholars]].<ref name="ArchivedFacts">{{cite web |title=Haverford College at a Glance |url=https://www.haverford.edu/beyond-haverford=www.haverford.edu |archive-url=https://www.haverford.edu/beyond-haverford |archive-date=October 19, 2019 |access-date=March 17, 2023}}</ref>

Notable graduates of Haverford College include a number of prominent businessmen such as [[Cantor Fitzgerald]] CEO and current [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] [[Howard Lutnick]] (1983), co-founder of [[MBK Partners]] [[Michael Kim (businessman)|Michael Kim]] (1985), [[Palantir Technologies]] co-founder and CEO [[Alex Karp]] (1989), and former co-chairman of [[Goldman Sachs]] and [[United States Deputy Secretary of State]] [[John C. Whitehead]] (1943). Haverford also counts among its alumni five [[Nobel Prize]] winners, including [[George Smith (chemist)|George Smith]] (1963), a co-recipient of the 2018 chemistry prize, and [[Nobel Peace Prize]] winner [[Philip Noel-Baker]] (1908), Emmy Award-winning journalist [[Juan Williams]] (1976), actor [[Daniel Dae Kim]] (1990), five winners of the [[Pulitzer Prize]], including humor columnist [[Dave Barry]] (1969) and journalist [[David Wessel]] (1975), editor-in-chief of ''[[Harvard Business Review]]'' [[Adi Ignatius]] (1981), [[Tony Award]]-winning [[playwright]] of ''[[Lend Me a Tenor]]'' and ''[[Crazy for You (musical)|Crazy for You]]'' [[Ken Ludwig]] (1972), composer [[Steven Gerber]] (1969), [[theoretical physicist]] [[Curtis Callan]] (1961), professional sports executive [[Arn Tellem]] (1976), former CEO of [[NPR]] [[Ken Stern]] (1985), tech entrepreneur [[James Kinsella (journalist and tech entrepreneur)|James Kinsella]] (1982), ''[[Paddington Bear]]'' illustrator [[R. W. Alley|R.W. Alley]] (1979), and architect [[G. P. Schafer Architect|Gil Schafer III]] (1984).

Notable attendees who did not graduate include early 20th century artist and illustrator [[Maxfield Parrish]], as well as actors [[Chevy Chase]], [[Judd Nelson]], and [[George Segal]]. Fictional FBI Special Agent [[Dale Cooper]], from the television series ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', was a member of the class of 1976.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Haverford College Alumni Association.  [http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/u?/HC_hisphoto,1339 ''A History of Haverford College For the First Sixty Years of Its Existence''].  Philadelphia, Pa.: Porter & Coates, 1892.
* Jones, Rufus Matthew.  [http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/u?/HC_hisphoto,1616 ''Haverford College: A History and Interpretation''].  New York: Macmillan, 1933.
* Kannerstein, Gregory, ed.  [http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/u?/HC_hisphoto,2451 ''The Spirit and the Intellect: Haverford College 1883–1983''].  Haverford, Pa.: Haverford College, 1983.
* Langlieb, David M.  ''Haverford College Off the Record''.  Pittsburgh, Pa.: College Prowler, 2005.
* [[Isaac Sharpless|Sharpless, Isaac]]. [https://archive.org/details/storyasmallcoll00shargoog ''The Story of a Small College''].  Philadelphia, Pa.: The John C. Winston Company, 1918.

==External links==
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* [https://www.haverfordathletics.com/landing/index Athletics website]
* [https://bicollegenews.com/ ''The Bi-College News'']—Haverford and Bryn Mawr's official student newspaper
* {{Cite Collier's|wstitle=Haverford College|short=x}}

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