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Location Enrollment International Students Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs Doctoral Programs
Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA 17,612 1,083 100 87 5
For a complete list of the academic majors and degree programs, visit www.catalog.hawaii.edu/degrees/degrees-cert.htm Top 5 Majors for International Undergraduate Students Travel Industry Management
Accounting
Economics
Biology
Second Language Studies
Top 5 Majors for International Graduate Students Second Language Studies Economics Political Science Civil Engineering Business Administration
• Research Tier I University - One of only 115 universities in the United States with this distinction. • Ranked 63rd best university in the United States (2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings). • Ranked in the top 18 International Business undergraduate programs (US News and World Report). • Ranked in the top 30 public universities for federal research funding in engineering and science (National Science Foundation). • Among the top 12 departments in the United States for Physics and Astronomy (National Research Council). • Ranked 67th in International Collaboration in the world (2017, US News the Best Global Universities Rankings). • John A. Burns School of Medicine is ranked in the top 20 of medical schools for primary care in the United States (2016, US News and World Report). • The UH Transitional Health Science Simulation Center is regarded as one of the most advanced simulation centers in the nation and gives students a chance to experience real life-scenarios using high-tech simulation technology. • UH Mānoa’s Music Department is known globally for having the nation’s largest ethnomusicology program consisting of nine ethnic performing ensembles and over 5,000 ethnic instruments in its collection. • A $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation has enabled UH Mānoa to build the Cyber-Enabled Collaboration Analysis Navigation and Observation Environment or CyberCANOE; a data visualization system said to be the best in the country. • The Hawai‘i Space Flight Laboratory gives UH Mānoa the distinction of being the only university in the world to create, design, and launch satellites into space. • Lyon Arboretum is the only research facility in the U.S. located in a tropical rainforest and is home to over 5,000 species of tropical and sub-tropical plants. • The Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge is the only indigenous college in a Research I ranked institution. Students have an opportunity to pursue, perpetuate, research, and revitalize all areas and forms of Hawaiian knowledge. ENGLISH 10/18 500