Academics

Haverford's intentionally diverse curricular requirements ensure that our students are well-rounded, expansive thinkers. Students take courses in each of three major academic divisions for a variety of ideas, concepts, and intellectual approaches.

Academic Offerings

Mansa Musa map

concentration

visual representations of the border

Asian American Studies minor

Photo of stars smeared across the night sky using exposure

Photo of stars smeared across the night sky using exposure

Biology lab

concentration

Preparing specimins within a biology lab

Molecule model

concentration

Chemistry lab

Students play and educate a small child on the floor

Chinese language class

A group of students are instructed by a professor on an archeological item.

concentration

Roman Colosseum

Close up of a Greek vase

montaigne les essais with handwritten notes

Computer Science

concentration

Student writing

concentration

Tamagawa University Taiko Dance Group performance

Microfinance Map

interior shot of a high school

concentration

Hands holding an opened book

a hand uses tweezers to pick debris out of sand

students at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute

fine arts studio

French documents

binary and non binary gender discussion

concentration

View of iceberg as a ship approaches for scientific research

concentration

Bradenburg Gate

greek sheet music from a Classics event

Group of students view one of Philadelphia's murals.

Petri dishes

Deche Vulgare Historiate

Paintings and sculture in an exhibit hall

Houses on the Cliffs of Riomaggiore, Italy

Students in Japan

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Student text

concentration

Ticha Project

Stock market

concentration

a student works on math equations

Mosque

concentration

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bi-college orchestra performing

Zebrafish

students place notes about social justice issues on a wall

concentration

Philosophy

Computational physics

U.S. Capitol Building

Psychology students

Religion

Latin phrases carved into stone

Collection of Russion language textbooks

Scientific computing

concentration

a WWII-era woman working on a motorcycle

Don Quixote

papers and a calculator scattered across a table where students work

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Consortium Programs

In addition to the wide range of academic programming available at Haverford, students may choose to pursue a major or minor at one of our consortium partner schools.


Master Degree Partnership Programs

Haverford College has forged innovative partnerships with some of the world's top academic institutions to offer students additional opportunities for graduate study.