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Founders Hall as seen from the sky
 

Office of Admission

Haverford students are defined by intellectual curiosity, a collaborative spirit, and a commitment to improving the world.

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Haverford College offers state-of-the-art facilities within a 200-acre arboretum campus, located just minutes from Philadelphia.

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Our Admission process is conducted as a comprehensive, holistic review in which each application is treated with extraordinary care and personal attention.

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No place trusts you more to forge your own academic path and contribute so meaningfully to the spirit and fabric of the campus community.

Why Haverford?

What's New?

Faculty

This seminar encourages students to analyze primary sources and secondary works to explore how and why early Friends came to see both war and slavery as immoral.

Faculty

This course examines how anthropologists contribute to human rights in law and grassroots movements.

Faculty

This political science course integrates diverse disciplinary approaches—legal, political, sociological and anthropological—to explore the causes of migration, the dynamics of assimilation and incorporation of migrants in the U.S., and the process and impacts of deportation and (re)incorporation in Mexico and Central America.

Faculty

This economics course covers the history of monetary policy and central banking before and after the creation of the Fed, as well as current debates in monetary policy.

Students

Haverford’s long-standing, midnight-skating, stick-wielding, hoagie-eating ice hockey team is open to all players, regardless of skill level.

Arts Campus Faculty

Earlier this month, poet Eileen Myles and Haverford’s Visiting Professor of English Thomas Devaney read their poems in Lutnick Library at a joint event.

Faculty Science

This computer science course explores both classical and modern approaches to machine learning, with an emphasis on theoretical understanding.

Faculty

This visual studies course is an introduction to theories of work, thinking critically and historically about the role of work in society, the promise of art as an ideal form of work, and the structural persistence of gendered, classed, and racial divisions of labor.

We are committed to making a Haverford education accessible and affordable.

With a $30 million annual aid budget, we meet the full demonstrated financial need of all admitted students–including international students, undocumented students, transfers, and students admitted from the waiting list.

Tuition & Aid

  • 50%

    of students receive some sort of financial aid

  • 47%

    of students received a college grant

  • $50,901

    average award of college grant

  • 50%

    of students receive some sort of financial aid

  • $50,901

    average award of college grant

Our personal approach to your education begins during the admission process.

Jess Lord, Vice President & Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, provides insight on the Admission process at Haverford College.

Meet our student volunteers.

Current students can give you the best sense of the Haverford community. Please feel free to reach out to our student volunteers if you have any questions about the academic or social environment on campus.

Haverford College provides an extraordinary setting for your education. We hope you'll visit and see for yourself!

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Admission Office Hours

Monday through Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fall Saturdays: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday through Friday: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Self-guided tours available anytime.

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The Class of 2023

Students hail from 35 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and 20 countries.

  • 4,963 applied
  • 810 admitted
  • 16% rate of admission
  • 363 total enrolled
  • 33% speak a language other than English at home
  • 48% students of color
  • 25% at least 1 parent did not attend college
  • 25 QuestBridge matches

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Where do Haverford students go after graduation? Anywhere they want.

A liberal arts education is the best professional preparation. The skills, knowledge, and critical thinking you develop at Haverford can be applied to myriad fields and careers. As a Ford, you automatically stand out in the world, and are better able to inform, heal, and improve it.

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