Haverfordians are regularly recognized for scholarly achievement.
A Haverford education carries clout worldwide.
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 via Haverford’s liberal arts curriculum have applications in so many different fields and careers all over the planet. As a Ford, you automatically stand out in the world, and are better able to inform, heal, and improve it.
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Chubb brings art from Africa and across the world to the Smith College Museum of Art as its first Curator of Contemporary Art.
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Right after his junior year he landed a summer internship in the front office of a major league baseball team, and it’s been a meteoric rise ever since. Today he’s director of minor league operations for the Minnesota Twins.
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In Côte d'Ivoire, political science alumna Rebecca Levy ’04 works to fight poverty as an employee of USAID.
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This ambitious Haverford alumna talks about her goals and the challenges that come with being an aerospace industry CEO.
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Introduced to art curation while a first-year student at Haverford, Penney now uses art as a vehicle for transformation.
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As chair of the HIV clinic at the Mayo Clinic, director of its HIV transplant services, associate dean of the Mayo School of Health Sciences, and associate professor of medicine, Dr. Stacey Rizza is on the front lines of treating and understanding HIV and hepatitis C.
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As a producer at Fresh Air with Terry Gross for 20 years and now as talent producer for Comedy Central’s The Opposition With Jordan Klepper, Baldonado has focused on researching and recruiting newsmakers—actors, writers, politicians, and academics—for radio and TV appearances.
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Fuchs works for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Submillimeter Array, a telescope located atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawai'i.
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Since December 2019, Indya Kincannon ’93 has been running Tennessee's third-largest city.
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Olsen is a physician specializing in addiction medicine, has recently published a book meant to “clarify and demystify” the national health emergency.
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From self-driving cars to in-home electromechanical helpers, Eric Krotkov ’82 is turning science fiction into reality.
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Hughes is working to make farming an accessible career for those new to the field through the National Young Farmers Coalition and the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Peet is bringing to market the health benefits of high-fiber, gluten-free chicory flour and the therapeutic potential of biosynthetically produced cannabinoids.
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From bringing artists to Haverford to co-founding globalFEST, Bill Bragin '89 reflects on his experience creating connections and providing opportunities for musicians.
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The recent Oxford graduate, who discovered a monoclonal antibody that potentially prevents malaria, will use the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to help support his final two years of medical school at the University of California, San Diego.
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NIchols shares her journey from childhood ballet student to Haverford College student to professional dancer and writer of a recent piece in "Dance Magazine" about blackface in ballet.
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As a composer, Burke's musical compositions span pop to classical styles.
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Klein is the founder of Storq, a maternity and postpartum apparel line.
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Along with wonderfully transgressive heroines, Dermansky is also known for getting consistently rave reviews for her blackly comic novels.
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The early education teacher was one of four Fords to be accepted into the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program for the 2023-2024 academic year.
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Stavis, a pioneering musician, brought the banjo into the psychedelic rock era. He's opened for acts like the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, and Richie Havens.
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Breaking the rules is the secret to this sommelier’s success.
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Kabat-Zinn, the scientist/thinker who in 1979 melded mindfulness with medicine and launched a still-growing modern movement, visited campus via the Whitehead Mindfulness Initiative.
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Daniel Dae Kim '90 Talks Diversity in Hollywood and Producing "The Good Doctor" With Hometown Newspaper.
Hands-on research with real-world application
Every student completes a thesis prior to graduation that contributes to their field of academia. The high-level research experience that students gain, in every department, prepares them for the next step in their academic life or career.
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Students can receive up to $10,000 in research funding through the Academic Centers
Haverford College senior psychology major Liz Heaton describes the behavioral neuroscience research she has been working on over the past year with Assistant Professor Laura Been.
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Nobel Prizes
George P. Smith ’63, one of three 2018 Nobel laureates in chemistry, is the fourth Haverford alum to win a Nobel Prize. A biology major while at Haverford, Smith credits his thesis advisor with introducing him to the field of molecular immunology that shaped his early career.
Haverfordians are regularly recognized for scholarly achievement through awards and fellowships such as Fulbright, Watson, Guggenheim, and the Nobel Prize.
Four Fords earned 2023/2024 Fulbright Student Awards. Haverford College is proud to be named one of the U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2023–2024 Fulbright U.S. Students.
Support for entrepreneurship and innovation
The Whitehead Internship Program funds rising Haverford juniors and seniors in summer work related to entrepreneurship, small business, venture capital, or finance. The new Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) works to develop a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus by providing mentoring and financial support for student startups.
Experiential Learning
Across all academic disciplines and majors, Fords learn by doing. From publishing in peer-reviewed journals with professors to coursework that takes them out of the classroom and into the community to hundreds of internship opportunities around the world, Haverford students have numerous ways to apply what they’ve learned to professional settings before graduation.
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Over 60 summer internships around the world
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More than 150 students participate in internships funded by our Academic Centers every year
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Students explore more than 40 different countries
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“From Malcolm X to Dave Chappelle: Islam, Humor, and Comedy in America”
The class traces the history of African American comedy and situates it specifically in relation to the civil rights struggles and the politics of African American Islam.
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Pipeline to the MLB
The skills picked up at Haverford—critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and a sophisticated understanding of data—have turned out to be an ideal fit for key front office roles in Major League Baseball.
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The Class That Publishes Together
A "Biochemistry Superlab" course co-taught by Professor Rob Fairman and Assistant Professor Lou Charkoudian recently published a peer-reviewed paper in PLOS Biology detailing not only the results of in-class research, but also how the class itself was designed to facilitate such research.
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Summer Centered
Stories exploring Haverford students' Center-funded summer work
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AwardsHaverfordians are regularly recognized for scholarly achievement through awards and fellowships such as Fulbright, Watson, Guggenheim, and the Nobel Prize.
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IndustryWhether you’re destined for graduate or medical school, entrepreneurship or the arts, the business or banking realms, or elsewhere in the world at large, you’ll always find yourself applying the unique academic and social skills you cultivate at Haverford.
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Graduate StudiesRecent graduates have gone to programs at the University of Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, UCLA, Cambridge, and the University of Pennsylvania, to name a few. Our alumni pursue careers ranging from business to medicine to public service to science and technology.
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Center for Career and Professional AdvisingThe center empowers students and alumni to learn about and prepare for meaningful work, as they translate their Haverford liberal arts education into a rewarding life.
Our students and graduates have been awarded Fulbrights, Watsons, Guggenheims, and the Nobel Prize.
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Nobel Prize Winners
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Fulbright Scholars
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MacArthur Fellows
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Goldwater Scholars
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Watson Fellows
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Rhodes Scholars
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Guggenheim Scholars
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Pulitzer Prize Recipients
Awards
Haverfordians are regularly recognized for scholarly achievement through awards and fellowships such as Fulbright, Watson, Guggenheim, and the Nobel Prize.
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The team came up with a web app designed to help refugees integrate into their new communities and build new lives for themselves and their families and won the award for Best Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Hack, one of 10 awards issued at the Comcast-sponsored event held at Drexel over the March 11-12 weekend.
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Haverford College has been named one of the nation's top producers of participants in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program.
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Before starting law school at Columbia University next fall, the political science major is currently teaching English at the Universidad Cooperativa De Colombia in Villavicencio.
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The recent NYU Shanghai global writing and speaking fellow will teach English in Hualien as part of a new program designed to help Taiwan reach its goal of becoming a bilingual nation by 2030.
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The political science major is studying how faith and politics interact at Harvard Divinity School, with the support of Haverford’s fund for graduate study.
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Alumni Weekend 2022 welcomed back aproximately 1,000 Fords for the first in-person reunion since 2019.
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The pre-med psychology major and health studies minor is one of only 22 students selected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for their summer internship.
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The psychology major and neuroscience minor will spend next year in Germany for intensive language study and professional internship experience.
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The KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest is an annual contest for student-submitted images from experiments or simulations that are scientifically intriguing as well as aesthetically pleasing.
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The scholarship will support the history and Russian double major’s intensive language-immersion program in Tbilisi, Georgia this summer.
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Joie Ling ’20, Abi Mumme-Monheit ’20, and Camille Samuels ’21 received fellowships from the National Science Foundation that will support their graduate education and research.
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The recent Oxford graduate, who discovered a monoclonal antibody that potentially prevents malaria, will use this fellowship to help support his final two years of medical school at the University of California, San Diego.
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Here's how our alumni are applying their skills, experience, and wisdom to life beyond campus.
Industry
Whether you’re destined for graduate or medical school, entrepreneurship or the arts, the business or banking realms, or elsewhere in the world at large, you’ll always find yourself applying the unique academic and social skills you cultivate at Haverford.
- Business and Finance22%
- Education19%
- Healthcare17%
- Science and Technology13%
- Public Service and Government9%
- Law and Legal Services8%
- Communications, Leisure, and Tourism7%
- Architecture, Arts, and Museums5%
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The English major, French minor, and gender and sexuality concentrator is both working at Beautiful Trouble, an organization supporting social movements and grassroots change around the world, and teaching English in France.
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The computer science major and Chinese minor works at Epic Systems as a software developer on the anesthesia team.
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The history major and peace, justice, and human rights concentrator is working on criminal justice reform at the Promise of Justice Initiative this year.
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The economics and mathematics double major is now working in Los Angeles for Rothschild & Co. in mergers and acquisitions.
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Biology major Neel Shah ’20 is doing cancer research in his two-year fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.
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Jacob Lowy '14, a Haverford political science major, writes about pivoting his career to medicine during a global pandemic.
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Dana Nichols '14 writes about her journey from childhood ballet student to Haverford College student to professional dancer and writer of a recent piece in "Dance Magazine" about blackface in ballet.
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The philosophy major is traveling to Shanghai to further her passion for education and helping others develop their communication skills.
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The computer science major is returning to Philadelphia to kick off her professional career as a software engineer for management consulting company Accenture.
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Head coach Bruce Berque ’88 led the University of Texas men’s tennis team to the program’s first national championship.
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In his new documentary, He Dreams of Giants, Keith Fulton ’88 continues an exploration into the psyche of ex-Monty Python-er Terry Gilliam that began with his 2002 film festival hit Lost in La Mancha.
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Mary Ceruti ’87 is prioritizing accessibility in art as the new executive director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Our students are admitted to medical school, law school, and other professional schools at rates that are significantly higher than the national average.
Graduate Studies
Recent graduates have gone to programs at the University of Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, UCLA, Cambridge, and the University of Pennsylvania, to name a few. Our alumni pursue careers ranging from business to medicine to public service to science and technology.
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Recent Graduate School Highlights
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- George Washington University
- Harvard University
- Jefferson Medical College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northeastern University
- New York University
- Stanford University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Chicago
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale University
- Science and Math22%
- Medicine and Health21%
- Arts and Humanities15%
- Social Sciences12%
- Law12%
- Business and Finance9%
- Education9%
Recent Graduate School Highlights
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- George Washington University
- Harvard University
- Jefferson Medical College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northeastern University
- New York University
- Stanford University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Chicago
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale University
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The history and Spanish double major reexamined popular perceptions of the past, close to and far from home.
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The math and linguistics double major is pursuing a Ph.D. in theoretical math at Ohio State University starting this fall.
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The physics major and economics minor used his thesis to study the properties of millisecond pulsars and their emission of Giant Pulses.
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The sociology major’s thesis rethinks how Western medicine diagnoses postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
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The religion major analyzed Christianity’s influence in U.S. politicians’ justifications for war.
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The English major’s thesis reexamined Jean Toomer’s “Cane.”
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The over-100-year-old Haverford College fellowship for graduate study will support Samuels’ pursuit of a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Irvine and Mayo’s pursuit of a Master of Science in Global Health at National Taiwan University.
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Chemistry major Marisa LaBarca ’21 is going to veterinary school at Tufts University.
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The chemistry major’s thesis research identified a compound that could function as an antibiotic.
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The chemistry major’s thesis outputs a set of conditions that are necessary to form a perovskite crystal.
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The chemistry major’s thesis outputs a set of conditions that are necessary to form a perovskite crystal.
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The political science and environmental studies double major combined his interests in his thesis research on the Sunrise Movement.