Haverford College

Haverford College

Motto	Non doctior, sed meliore doctrina imbutus
Motto in English	"Not more learned, but steeped in a higher learning"
Type	Private liberal arts college
Established	1833
Affiliation	None (formerly Orthodox Quaker)
Endowment	$495.0 million (2015)
President	Kimberly Benston
Academic staff	148
Undergraduates	1,290
Location	Haverford community Haverford Twp Lower Merion Twp, Pennsylvania, USA
Campus	Suburban, 216 acres (0.87 km2)
Colors	Scarlet and Black
Athletics	NCAA Division III – CC
Nickname	Fords
Affiliations	TCC Annapolis Group Oberlin Group CLAC 568 Group
Website	www.haverford.edu

Haverford College (/ˈhævərfərd/ HA-vər-fərd) is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia. All students of the College are undergraduates, and nearly all reside on campus.

The college was founded in 1833 by area members of the Orthodox Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to ensure an education grounded in Quaker values for young Quaker men. Although the college no longer has a formal religious affiliation, Quaker philosophy still influences campus life. Originally an all-male institution, Haverford began admitting female transfer students in the 1970s and became fully co-educational in 1980. Currently, more than half of Haverford's students are women. For most of the 20th century, Haverford's total enrollment was kept below 300, but the school went through two periods of expansion during and after the 1970s, and its current enrollment is 1,290 students.

Today Haverford offers its students a wide range of educational choices and considerable flexibility in choosing their areas of study or specialisation. The college offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 31 majors across humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.