Academics/Thesis
Haverford’s 31 departmental majors and 22 concentrations lead to a capstone academic project. Senior projects are often informed by co-curricular research conducted through our three Centers for interdisciplinary study.
Since 2011 College Communications has produced a unique homepage each weekday to spotlight the rich diversity of Haverford's academic programming, extracurricular offerings, campus culture, and community members' accomplishments.
Haverford’s 31 departmental majors and 22 concentrations lead to a capstone academic project. Senior projects are often informed by co-curricular research conducted through our three Centers for interdisciplinary study.
“To me student-athlete means you have committed to a team and are accountable not only to yourself, but your teammates and coaches. Being an athlete is a time-consuming passion that is worth the extra hours you put in.“—Jordan Nieusma ’14, softball
The Dining Center opened in 1969, moving students into a modern era for food service at the College. Today the DC’s kitchen composts pre-consumer food waste and sources organic and local foods.
Missed yesterday’s photo? See the dining back “Then“.
Founders Great Hall became the College’s dining center in 1907. By the time this photo was shot, the stately room had become a noisy cafeteria, where, according to one history of the College, “food fights were endemic.”
Come back tomorrow to see dining “Now”.
Customs Week is Haverford College’s orientation program designed to introduce all first-year students to college life at Haverford.
Haverford faculty model academic excellence through their scholarship and an ongoing commitment to compelling, effective instruction.
Philosophy at Haverford aims as far as possible to reflect the richness, diversity, and reflexivity of philosophical inquiry.
The academic experience is shaped by close personal and professional relationships with faculty, an approach that combines collaboration with mentorship.
Haverford players focused on the Native American roots of the game during a campus visit by a team from the Iroquois Lacrosse Program.
“Every day millions of tons of coal leave Central Appalachia for power plants across the country, from this mountain and from many more just like it. My Center for Peace and Global Citizenship internship allowed me to explore how our environment right here in America is being destroyed and remade.” —Corey Chao ’08
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.