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“I really like, in all my classes, to bring in cultural elements to remind my students that these were real people.”

Associate Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan teaches ancient Greek and Latin language classes as well as courses on literature, mythology, and history.

Read Office Hour in Haverford Magazine.

Reading Groups gather regularly to study texts of mutual interest. Some groups are student-driven, some for faculty only, and others are a mix of students, staff, and faculty.

Our campus has 200 acres of award-winning architecture and landscaping, more than 50 academic, athletic and residential buildings, and a nationally recognized arboretum with 400 species of trees and shrubs, a 3.5-acre duck pond, gardens and wooded areas.

"Thinking About Music"

"The class examines the big questions that swirl around music and musical creativity, and it tries to examine how musicians and musical thinkers have tried to answer them over the ages." — John C. Whitehead '43 Professor of Humanities and Associate Provost Richard Freedman

Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience .

"Living abroad challenged me to reexamine how I express myself. What do I say? How and when? After overcoming the exhausting and disembodying effect of linguistic barriers, I eventually embraced the beauty of simplifying my speech. I found it to help me connect more genuinely with others and myself. Living abroad forced me out of my comfort zone to discover a new one." – Dana Duncombe '17

Each year more than 130 Haverford students take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad.

With the outbreak of the Korean War, Haverford launched its most recent foray into graduate education: the Social and Technical Assistance program, which ran from 1951 to 1956.

Assistant Professor of Astronomy Desika Narayanan was part of an international team that uncovered two galaxies at the heart of the Lyman-alpha blob.

Walter Sorrells '85 has been a novelist since his mid-20s, publishing thrillers and mysteries under a variety of names; he has trained in various martial arts for more than two decades; he is a competitive pistol shooter; and for more than a decade, he has been handcrafting elaborate knives and swords. 

“I’ve pretty much spent my entire adult life doing the same things I was interested in when I was 13 years old.”

Haverford has more than 145 student groups that publish magazines, host symposia, sing a cappella, discuss religion and spirituality, stay politically active, maintain a system of student self-government, dance, demonstrate and create.

Haverford fields 23 Varsity teams, and club and intramural options include badminton, crew, golf, soccer, Ultimate, volleyball, and rugby.

53% of our students are on varsity or club teams.