Haverford College at a Glance - 2011-12
Haverford students are admitted to medical school, law school, and other professional schools at rates that are significantly higher than the national average, and that are comparable to those of other highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities.
Student Body
1,177
total enrollment
53%
women
47%
men
31%
students of color
- 13.6% New England
- 13.9% Pennsylvania
- 11.4% Midwest & Central US
- 36.4% Mid-Atlantic (not including PA)
- 10.4% Pacific Coast
- 9% South
- 7.6% International
Academics
Class size: % of classes with...
- 5 students or fewer 22.2% (22.2%)
- 10 students or fewer 39.5% (39.5%)
- 25 students or fewer 87.5% (87.5%)
- 50 students or more 0.6% (0.6%)
Popular Majors
- Biology
- Economics
- English
- History
- Political Science
- Psychology
8:1
student:faculty ratio24%
faculty of color
97%
full-time faculty with highest degree in their fields
students living on campus.
faculty living on campus.
Honors, Scholarships, Prizes
- Fulbright Scholars: 30
- Fulbright Exchanges: 6
- Nobel Prize Winners: 3
- Pulitzer Prize Winners: 6
- Luce Scholars: 9
- Truman Scholars: 7
- Goldwater Scholars: 23
- Rhodes Scholars: 20
- Senator George Mitchell Scholar: 1
- NCAA Postgraduate Scholars: 23
- Guggenheim Fellows: 24
- Thomas J. Watson Fellows: 60
- Carnegie Endowment for World Peace Junior Fellows: 2
- Jack Kent Cooke Scholars: 2
- Marshall Scholar: 1
- Beinecke Scholars: 5
- Winston Churchill Fellows: 2
- Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholars: 13
- Gates-Cambridge Scholar: 1
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows: 9
Miscellaneous
Haverford also has...
- a need blind admission policy for U.S. citizens and permanent residents;
- one of the most extensive collections of Quaker history in the world;
- The C. Christopher Morris Cricket Library & Collection: largest collection of cricket literature and memorabilia in the western hemisphere;
- one of the oldest honor codes in the U.S. and one of the few with a social dimension.
students who play an intercollegiate sport
students who study abroad
alumni who attend graduate school within five years