Housing
98% of Haverford students live on campus, and all students are guaranteed housing for all four years.
La Casa Hispanica
Since its founding in 1948, La Casa has been the residential focus of Latino, Spanish American and Spanish cultural vitality at Haverford. It is dedicated to supporting the endeavors of students interested in organizing programs concerned with the cultures and civilizations of the Spanish speaking world. La Casa is a multi-purpose building with single bedrooms for students, a faculty residence, and a large room for Spanish Department activities.
Campus housing is overwhelmingly coed, and residence halls vary in accommodations from 4-person apartments to suites and singles. The majority of students live in singles, and students can choose from living arrangements that include suites (groupings of single rooms that share a common lounge), on-campus apartments with kitchens and private baths, and houses that were originally private dwellings. Cultural spaces such as La Casa Hispanica and the Black Cultural Center also serve as dormitories, and students interested in quiet and substance-free housing may live in Cadbury House.
First-year students are assigned to one of three locations: Barclay Hall, Gummere Hall, or the Haverford College Apartments (HCA). Barclay Hall is a coed residence hall with single and double rooms. Some singles open directly onto the main corridor, while others are grouped in three-person suites. Gummere Hall is a coed residence hall with single rooms, most of which are located within a suite of four. The Haverford College Apartments (HCA) are coed by floor and each apartment is single sex. Each first-year apartment has two bedrooms, a bathroom, a common room, and a kitchen (equipped with a stove and refrigerator). Four first-year students are assigned to an apartment. All dorm and apartment rooms have individual high-speed ethernet connection jacks, and there are laundry rooms in both Gummere and Barclay basements. Each apartment building has one washer and one dryer in the basement.
There are no fraternities or sororities at Haverford, and we don’t have any resident advisors. Rather, first-year students are advised and aided in their transition to college through a unique student-run program of live-in, upper-class volunteers offering orientation, academic counseling, extracurricular advice, and personal mentorship. An introduction to life at Haverford begins with Customs Week at the opening of each academic year. We work hard to ensure that students are safe, comfortable, and satisfied in their on-campus residences. Although only first-year, transfer, and exchange students are required to live on campus, most upper-class students choose College housing, with generally fewer than three percent living off campus each year; this is a testament to Haverford’s positive, community-oriented on-campus housing experience.