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About UH Mānoa

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Established in 1907, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is the largest and oldest of the 10 UH campuses. Mānoa offers hundreds of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees; a strong, vital research program; and nationally ranked NCAA Division I athletics. UH Mānoa is a research university of international standings.

It has widely recognized strengths in tropical agriculture, tropical medicine, oceanography, astronomy, electrical engineering, volcanology, evolutionary biology, comparative philosophy, comparative religion, Hawaiian studies, Pacific Islands studies, Asian studies and Pacific and Asian regional public health.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is located in beautiful Mānoa Valley, minutes from Waikīkī and downtown Honolulu

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is a world-class university providing affordable, quality higher education to the people of Hawaiʻi and conducting pioneering research to address critical issues facing the state.

Excellent Value

UH Mānoa continues to be an excellent value with tuition more than $4,000 below the national average for a public university, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and one of the reasons why Hawaiʻi, compared to the other states, has one of the country’s lowest rates of student debt. The flagship campus of the UH System is consistently ranked in the top 2 percent nationally and internationally.

Strong Research

UH Mānoa is one of 146 R1: Research Universities, considered the top tier in the country, and one of a handful of land-, sea-, space-, and sun-grant institutions. It is a global leader in earth and environmental sciences, consistently ranked among the top 15 universities internationally, ahead of some of the world’s most prestigious schools. UH Mānoa researchers provide world class expertise to local leaders on important issues including sustainability, climate, food systems and Hawai‘i’s unique health issues.

Multicultural Global Experience

Committed to being the leading indigenous serving university in the country, UH Mānoa proudly delivers a unique multicultural global experience in a Hawaiian place of learning, with a long history of adherence to the principles of sustainability and the essence of aloha—truly like nowhere else on earth.

See our fast facts or, for more detailed information about the University, please visit the Mānoa Institutional Research Office (MIRO) pages.

At a Glance

  • Founded: 1907
  • Location: beautiful Mānoa Valley, just outside downtown Honolulu, Hawaiʻi on the island of Oʻahu
  • Campus size: 320 acres
  • University of Hawaiʻi System motto: Maluna aʻe o nā lāhui a pau ke ola ke kanaka (Above all nations is humanity)

Students*

  • Total student population: 19,074
    • Undergraduate: 14,198
    • Graduate: 4,876
  • Hawaiʻi (in-state) students: 58%
  • Out-of-state / U.S. National students: 36%
  • International students: 7%
  • States represented: 50
  • Countries and Regions represented: 128
  • Male/female ratio: 39:61
  • Average High School GPA: 3.69
  • 54% in the top 25% in High School

*current as of Fall 2022

Culture

Arts and Culture

UH Mānoa » Campus Life » Arts and Culture

Located at the crossroads of the Pacific, UH Mānoa arts and cultural programs bring together the best of Asia, the Pacific Islands, the United States and beyond. Offering hundreds of year-round events and exhibits, the Mānoa campus is an ideal place to learn about other cultures or discover a new passion.

Diversity

Campus Diversity

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UH Mānoa is proud of its diverse, multiethnic heritage. Located at the crossroads of the Pacific, the campus is home to students, faculty and staff from Hawaiʻi, the U.S. mainland, and more than 122 countries and regions around the world. Our programs consistently rank among the nation’s most diverse.

This diversity and Hawaiʻi’s spirit of aloha—a term that refers to the mutual regard, caring and affection felt and expressed among people from all walks of life—contributes to a campus environment we think you’ll agree is unique.

News

Internationally Recognized Research

UH Mānoa » Internationally Recognized Research

Classified by the Carnegie Foundation as having “very high research activity,” the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is recognized for its pioneering research in such fields as oceanography, astronomy, Pacific Islands and Asian area studies, linguistics, education, tropical agriculture, cancer, and genetics.

 

Top Rankings

Proud to be recognized as a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution, UH Mānoa is ranked 48th among U.S. public universities in the level of extramural research expenditures ($317 million), and 37th among U.S. public universities in level of Federal research expenditures, according to the latest figures from the National Science Foundation. With these funds, UH Mānoa maintains a vibrant and active research program.

The University is ranked among the top world universities for its publications. According to the 2015 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, the University of Hawaiʻi is 186th overall, and 71st in the United States. This ranking provides a snapshot of our continuing efforts in research productivity, research impact and research excellence.

International Reach

UH Mānoa is a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, the leading consortium of research universities for the region. APRU represents 45 premier research universities — with a collective 2 million students and 120,000 faculty members — from 16 economies in the most dynamic and diverse region of the world.

Additionally, earth, environmental and geosciences research at UH Mānoa has been ranked in the top 12–17 institutions worldwide from a variety of international ranking efforts (Nature Index, National Taiwan University Rankings, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Rankings).

Unique Facilities

UH Mānoa is home to some of the world’s most unique research facilities.

This includes the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, with laboratories in cosmochemistry, infrared spectroscopy, infrasound, paleomagnetics and Raman spectroscopy.

The Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology at Coconut Island offers year-round access to Kāneʻohe Bay as well as flumes simulating coral reef flat environments, reef microcosm tanks, controlled tidal ponds and much more.

The Institute for Astronomy conducts research into galaxies, cosmology, stars, planets and the Sun at its world-class astronomical observing facilities on Oʻahu, Maui, and Hawaiʻi Island.

Go to the Office of the Vice Provost for Research & Scholarship for more information about research at UH Mānoa.

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