University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaiʻi system, formally as the University of Hawaiʻi and popularly known as U.H., is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training center, three university centers, four education centers and various other research facilities distributed across six islands throughout the State of Hawaiʻi in the United States.

Colleges and universities:
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, founded as a land grant college under the terms of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts (known as "land-grant colleges" of public state universities especially in the West and Mid-West) in the United States, is the flagship institution of the University of Hawaiʻi system. It is well respected for its programs in Hawaiian/Pacific Studies, Astronomy, East Asian Languages and Literature, Asian Studies, Comparative Philosophy, Marine Science, Second Language Studies, along with Botany, Engineering, Ethnomusicology, Geophysics, Law, Business, Linguistics, Mathematics, and Medicine. The second-largest institution is the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo on the "Big Island" of Hawaiʻi, with over 3,000 students. The smaller University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu in Kapolei primarily serves students who reside on Honolulu's western and central suburban communities. The University of Hawaiʻi Community College system comprises four community colleges island campuses on O'ahu and one each on Maui, Kauaʻi, and Hawaiʻi. The schools were created to improve accessibility of courses to more Hawaiʻi residents and provide an affordable means of easing the transition from secondary school/high school to college for many students. University of Hawaiʻi education centers are located in more remote areas of the State and its several islands, supporting rural communities via distance education.

Universities:
University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa
University of Hawaiʻi, Hilo
University of Hawaiʻi, West Oʻahu
Colleges:
University of Hawai'i Maui College

Community colleges:
Hawaiʻi Community College
Honolulu Community College
Kapiʻolani Community College
Kauaʻi Community College
Leeward Community College
Windward Community College

Professional schools:
Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
John A. Burns School of Medicine
William S. Richardson School of Law
Shidler College of Business

Research facilities:
Cancer Research Center of Hawaiʻi
East-West Center
Haleakalā Observatory
Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute
Institute for Astronomy
Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
Institute of Marine Biology
Lyon Arboretum
Mauna Kea Observatory
W. M. Keck Observatory
Waikīkī Aquarium

University centers:
University of Hawaii Center West Hawaii
University of Hawaii Center Kauai
University of Hawaii Center Maui

Education centers:
Molokaʻi Education Center
Lānaʻi Education Center
Hana Education Center
Waiʻanae Education Center
Lāhainā Education Center