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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Beyond the famous Burning Man Festival, Debucquoy-Dodley works year-round to organize artistic and cultural programs for the San Francisco-based nonprofit Burning Man Project.
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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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Shuman creates fun, new ways for children to learn the stories of the Torah through his series, Torah Time Travel.
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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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Along with wonderfully transgressive heroines, Dermansky is also known for getting consistently rave reviews for her blackly comic novels.
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Keyser works as a contractor in Network Management for a large healthcare organization, building and maintaining provider networks and provider data management.
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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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In Philadelphia, the 76ers can order yakisoba noodles for breakfast and drink bone broth during film sessions. It's all part of the team's food program under executive chef JaeHee Cho.
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Breaking the rules is the secret to this sommelier’s success.
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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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This ambitious Haverford alumna talks about her goals and the challenges that come with being an aerospace industry CEO.
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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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Daniel Dae Kim '90 Talks Diversity in Hollywood and Producing "The Good Doctor" With Hometown Newspaper.
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After nearly five years as the chief financial officer to Philadelphia’s City Council, for which he helped analyze and plan multibillion-dollar budgets, Matthew Stitt was not finished with his hometown. Now he counsels public sector clients on how to change budgets and institutions in equal service of all residents.
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As one of the lawyers featured in both seasons of Making a Murderer, Steven Drizin ’83 plays an important supporting role in the Netflix hit. While the series’ popularity has brought Drizin celebrity, it’s also brought him something more important: a much larger platform to advocate for change in the legal system’s treatment of juveniles.
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Kugler's circus arts company has performed to critical acclaim in Chicago and Philadelphia.
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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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Kaur is a co-founder of The Sikh Coalition, an organization dedicated to legal advocacy for a religious minority that often finds itself the target of discrimination.
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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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The former sports agent, author, and founder of the Shapiro Negotiations Institute shares some of his "trade secrets."
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The Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and associate dean of admissions at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine has achieved widespread recognition for her work addressing health disparities.
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Pioneering "New Urban Mechanic" Chris Osgood '99 is changing the way Boston delivers services and solves problems.
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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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From bringing artists to Haverford to co-founding globalFEST, Bill Bragin '89 reflects on his experience creating connections and providing opportunities for musicians.
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 former religion major will spend the next two years in Pittsburgh mentoring and tutoring students while earning a graduate degree. -
Josh Mussa '13, Sally Weathers '13 and Candace Jordan '12 will move to Abu Dhabi later this summer for a yearlong fellowship providing academic support and enrichment to the World's Honors College. -
Starace, who studied abroad in Berlin last spring, is returning to Germany to teach English next year.
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The political science and Russian double major will use the scholarship to enhance her Russian language skills in a program at Saint Petersburg State University.
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The Fulbright funding will allow Goff to spend a year working in a neuroscience lab at the University of Bergen, in Norway.
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Kang, who emigrated from Korea to the U.S. when she was 4, will return to her birthplace to teach English next year.
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Jake Weisenthal and Shanina Halbert have won full-year fellowships that will support their work with organizations in Guatemala and Colombia, respectively. -
Rodriques, who also won a Churchill Scholarship earlier this year, will use the generous award, valued at over $250,000, to support graduate studies at M.I.T. -
The growth and structure of cities major secured $27,000 in private grant money to fund a project she will launch this summer following her Haverford graduation. -
The Russian major has earned the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace, which will fund her summer language program at Middlebury Language School, and the ROSSICA Young Translators Award, a £500 prize for her work on Marina Stepnova's The Women of Lazarus. -
A member of Haverford's cross country and track teams, Kissin is the 10th athlete from those programs to be selected for the scholarship, which helps fund graduate studies for outstanding student-athletes.
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Rodriques is the third Haverford student to win the highly competitive Churchill Scholarship since the College was invited into the program in 2007. The scholarship funds graduate study in the sciences, engineering and math at Cambridge University.

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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%
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