Office of thePresident
Institutional Research
The Office of Institutional Research at Haverford College supports campus decision-making, policy development, assessment, and accreditation activities in relation to the College's educational mission.
Within a comprehensive program of institutional research, the Office gathers and maintains longitudinal institutional data, conducts regular and ad hoc analyses, coordinates external reporting, and supports College initiatives on assessment and institutional improvement.
Policies related to College data, including appropriate use, confidentiality, and data stewardship are available in the policies section of the Data Governance website. For resources supporting the Division/Department Assessment Plan (DAP) process, please refer to the internal Institutional Effectiveness website. Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC) agendas and reports can be found on the IEC section of the College's Assessment website.
Haverford Data
- Common Data Set
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Factbook
Haverford College Governance & Organization
Haverford College History and Campus
- List of Presidents
- College Buildings by Year of Construction
- Campus Map
- Historical Enrollment since 1833
Admission and Financial Aid
Students
Faculty and Academic Program
- Faculty Statistics
- Historical FTE Student : Faculty Ratios
- CDS Student : Faculty Ratios and Class Size Distribution
Institutional Finances
- Financial Statements
- Student Charges
- FTE Summary: Students, Faculty, Employees
- Five Year Giving Summary
Community Demographics
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Dashboards
- Institutional Dashboard: Longitudinal Haverford data on admission, enrollment, completion, charges and discount rate, endowment, alumni giving, and endowment and student aid per FTE.
- Outcomes Dashboard: Longitudinal and/or comparative data on completion by race/ethnicity, net price by family income level, first destinations, awards and fellowships, baccalaureate origins of PhD recipients, and median debt.
- AAUP Dashboard: Longitudinal and comparative faculty salary and compensation estimates
- IPEDS Data Feedback Report: Haverford compared to the median of 17 institutions on a variety of measures pertaining to admission, enrollment, retention, net price, completions, finance, staffing, instructional salaries, and libraries.
- College Navigator (NCES- National Center for Education Statistics): Haverford College Profile data from various IPEDS surveys.
- College Scorecard (US Department of Education): Haverford College Profile data from IPEDS and the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS). Student debt, cost, and earnings data reflect only students receiving Federal Financial Aid; some Haverford data is suppressed due to small N.
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Student Achievement and Outcomes
The Haverford Experience
- Senior Class Satisfaction
- General Education and Capstone Achievement (Direct Assessment)
- Outcomes Dashboard
Beyond Haverford
- Beyond Haverford (the Liberal Arts as career preparation, including alumni profiles, awards, and outcomes by industry and graduate study—which can be filtered by major)
- First Destinations
- Fellowships and Scholarship Recipients
- Alumni Measures of Satisfaction and Preparation
- Baccalaureate Origins of PhD Recipients
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Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA)
The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008, which reauthorized the Higher Education Act of 1965, requires Haverford College to centralize and make available to prospective and enrolled students, faculty, and staff, certain information about the College’s policies and practices, operations, and costs.
This information is hosted in various places across the College’s website and is assembled and displayed on the HEOA website to provide easy access.
IR Resources
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Peer Institutions
- Amherst College, MA
- Barnard College, NY
- Bowdoin College, ME
- Bryn Mawr College, PA
- Carleton College, MN
- Claremont McKenna College, CA
- Davidson College, NC
- Macalester College, MN
- Middlebury College, VT
- Mount Holyoke College, MA
- Oberlin College, OH
- Pomona College, CA
- Smith College, MA
- Swarthmore College, PA
- Trinity College, CT
- Vassar College, NY
- Wellesley College, MA
- Wesleyan University, CT
- Williams College, MA
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Professional Organizations and Tools
- Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
- Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
- Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania (AICUP)
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Facts & Figures
- College Affordability and Transparency Center
- College Navigator
- College Scorecard
- Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS)
- Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
- National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)
- Northeast Association for Institutional Research (NEAIR)
- Middle States Commission on Higher Education
- Student Affairs Assessment Leaders