University of Hawai'i at Manoa

The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa is well-known for pioneering research in such fields as oceanography, astronomy, Pacific Islands and Asian area studies, linguistics, cancer, and genetics. It is a land-, sea- and space-grant research institution and is nationally ranked in the top 30 public universities in federal research funding for engineering and science.The National Science Foundation has ranked it 49th overall. The University has many unique facilities, including the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics & Planetology and the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology at Coconut Island, and the Institute for Astronomy.

Hawai'i Hall, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

EPSCoR

The University of Hawai'i participates in the NSF EPSCoR program. The mission of EPSCoR, the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, is "to encourage to strengthen research and education in science and engineering throughout the United States and to avoid undue concentration of such research and education". Criteria for eligibility to participate in the NSF EPSCoR program is based on the level of NSF research funding.

A Native Hawaiian-Serving Institution

The US Department of Education has designated the University of Hawaii as a Native Hawaiian-Serving Institution under Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965.