Haverford College

Haverford Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1833. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,187, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 200 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Haverford College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 8. Its charge and fees are $47,214 (2014-15).
Haverford Academy is amid 10 afar from Philadelphia in Haverford, Pa., on a campus that is classified as an arboretum, encompassing area and a ample pond. Although the academy was founded by a accumulation of Quakers from Philadelphia and New York, the academy does not accept a religious amalgamation today. Haverford has 21 NCAA Division III sports teams in the Centennial Conference, and the academy has the oldest academy soccer aggregation and alone varsity candid aggregation in the country. Haverford does not accept any fraternities or sororities, but it has added than 134 organizations that acceptance can get complex with on campus. Haverford is a residential college, and added than 98 percent of acceptance reside in one of the abode halls, campus apartments or houses.


Haverford Academy offers acceptance the befalling to yield classes at Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania. Haverford has one of the a lot of all-encompassing collections of Quaker history in the world. Also, The C. Christopher Morris Candid Library and Accumulating is the better accumulating of candid memorabilia in the world. Haverford offers a amount of abstraction away programs through its International Bookish Programs office, including programs advised accurately for pre-med acceptance and science and algebraic majors. Notable alumni cover amateur Chevy Chase, announcer Juan Williams and columnist Frank Conroy.

Haverford Academy provides a advanced arts apprenticeship in the broadest sense, adopting an aberrant spirit of inquiry, debate, botheration solving, creativity, ingenuity, and adulation of learning. A adroitness of top principle, both academically and personally, is the watermark of a Haverford education. It is embodied in the account cipher and reflected in the lives of alumni. Haverford's acceptable accent on a affluent curriculum, on undergraduate captivation in adroitness analysis -- all acceptance are appropriate to complete a Senior Thesis -- and the abutting of academics to issues of amusing amends is continued by three interdisciplinary Centers: The Hurford Humanities Center; The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and The Koshland Integrated Natural Science Center.