Haverford provides ample opportunities for collaborative student-faculty research. In addition, its close cooperative relationship with neighboring Bryn Mawr College enables students from both colleges to take courses and pursue a major at either campus. Student life in and outside the classroom is governed by the student-run honor code established in 1896. Students are expected to develop a strong sense of individual responsibility as well as intellectual integrity, honesty and genuine concern for others. Under the honor code, final exams are self-scheduled and unproctored.
Students routinely serve on campus governance and policy-making committees.
Haverford's 204-acre campus is also an arboretum containing over 400 species of trees and shrubs, a Pinetum, nature walk, duck pond and small Zen garden. The campus was specifically designed to resemble the work of landscape architect Humphrey Repton, one of England's greatest landscape architects. Over the last three decades, Haverford's biology department has gained a national reputation for instruction in molecular biology. It was the first undergraduate program to focus on molecular and cellular biology and became a model to be studied by other institutions. The Quaker Collection, a major resource of 32,000 Quaker titles including 4,000 volumes printed prior to 1700.