Beyond Haverford

Beyond Haverford

Lifelong Connections —

Thousands of Haverford alumni are eager to help you make your next move.

Active volunteers are available to offer career support, advice, and guidance; much of this happens through a variety of Haverford-affiliated groups, including: • Finance Network

• Public Health Network • LGBTQ+ Network

Tionney Nix ’17

Nix is a software engineer with Google New York.

The opportunity to manage your own learning, collaborate with faculty, and connect knowledge across disciplines builds a framework that you’ll use forever. 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.

• Multicultural Alumni Action Group • Haverford Lawyers Network

• Young Alumni Advisory Group • Athletics Alumni Network

14,000+ NETWORK OF ALUMNI

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The Center for Career and Professional Advising (CCPA) helps you explore and prepare for meaningful jobs, careers, and post-graduate experiences:

84%

of the overall student body engaged with the CCPA last year

161

163

195

information sessions and workshops

collegesponsored internships

on-campus and consortium interviews

PROFESSIONAL ADVISING

Advising focuses on professional development, communicating in professional settings, and building your confidence in networking and developing relationships, especially with Haverford’s dedicated and accomplished alumni and potential mentors. You will be guided to recognize and articulate the excellent analytical and communication skills, specialized knowledge, and remarkable leadership experience you’ll develop at Haverford.

JOB AND INTERNSHIP SEARCH

The CCPA works with employers, maintains job boards, and hosts recruiting days, job fairs, and other events that help you connect with professionals in your desired fields. The CCPA assists you with finding and securing internships, externships, and post-graduate jobs and opportunities.

POLISHING YOUR PROFESSIONAL IMAGE

You can also come to the CCPA for guidance and resources to help you craft polished and professional cover letters, resumes, correspondence, and online profiles.

APPLYING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL

Get help navigating the application process for graduate and other professional schools. If you are interested in pursuing Ph.D. programs, you’ll receive guidance from Haverford faculty in your selected discipline. Haverford has a dedicated pre-health advisor as well as a pre-law advisor; both housed at the CCPA. NETWORKING

The CCPA hosts and participates in many networking events throughout the year and provides guidance to help you successfully utilize the many resources available.

NAMED A TOP PRODUCING INSTITUTION FOR FULBRIGHT STUDENTS

 #15 AMONG LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES IN THE # OF GRADS WHO GO ON TO EARN DOCTORATES

 #10 QUARTZ NEWS: 25 SCHOOLS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GREATEST ADVANCES IN SCIENCE

Class of 2019

68.2% EMPLOYED

Members of the Class of 2019 were surveyed at graduation and over the course of the following six months. Additional post-baccalaureate activity data was incorporated from College and social media sources.

94% of the class is reflected in this data.

15.4% GRADUATE SCHOOL 10.4% SEEKING EMPLOYMENT 3.3% VOLUNTEERING/TRAVEL/OTHER 2.6% FELLOWSHIP

For more stories about what Fords will be doing after graduation, check out the Haverblog series, “Where They’re Headed,” at hav.to/wth

70% plan to attend graduate school within five years of graduation

ELIZABETH CULP ’19

DAVID ZEGEYE ’19

NICK PEREZ ’19

Major: Russian Studies

Majors: Physics and Astronomy

Major: Economics

Post-grad plans: Culp has traveled to Almaty, Kazakhstan, on a Boren Scholarship to take classes in Russian at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University for a full year. The Boren Scholarship is a grant, supplied by the U.S. government, that enables a student’s deeper learning of a language that is deemed pertinent to the Department of Defense. After an extended period of linguistic immersion abroad, the student receives a post in the federal government.

Post-grad plans: Zegeye is pursuing a Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Chicago He is studying the early history of the universe through an examination of the phenomenon known as the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Post-grad plans: Perez has taken a position as a Baseball Operations Trainee for the Cincinatti Reds Major League Baseball team.

Bona fides: Culp spent a semester abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia. In preparation for her future in government service she interned last summer in Kyiv, Ukraine with the Department of State’s Office of U.N. Political Affairs.

Bona fides: While at Haverford, Zegeye studied abroad at University College London. He also worked as a Research Collaborator at the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

His research at Haverford included work as a Summer Scholar funded by the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center studying the evolution of galaxies.

Bona fides: During the summer before senior year, Perez interned with the New York Yankees and following graduation spent five months interning with the Chicago White Sox player development department. He played baseball for three years with Haverford after transferring from Rutgers after his first year. Perez wrote his senior thesis on the impact of the movement of superstar athletes between teams in the MLB and NBA on the amenity levels of local economies.

Class of 2019 Highlights GRADUATE SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS

EMPLOYER HIGHLIGHTS

University of Pennsylvania Johns Hopkins University University of Chicago Harvard University London School of Economics & Political Science Sidney Kimmel Medical College Stanford University University of North Carolina University of Michigan Brown University Columbia University

AmeriCorps IBM Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. City Year Fulbright Comcast Goldman Sachs Google, Inc.

2019 TOP U.S. CITIES

United States Senate Boston Children’s Hospital National Institutes of Health United Nations Development Programme Urban Outfitters Texas Rangers Baseball Club Walt Disney Company University of Pennsylvania Vanguard

Philadelphia New York Boston Washington D.C. San Francisco Seattle Los Angeles Approximately 9% of graduates are working and/or studying outside of the United States.