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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Motto "Ma luna a'e o na lahui a pau ke ola o ke kanaka" (Hawaiian)
Motto in English
"Above all nations is humanity"
Type Public flagship
Land-grant
Sea-grant
Space-grant
Established 1907
Endowment $271.2 million (2016)
Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman
President David Lassner
Students 20,435
Undergraduates 13,952
Postgraduates 6,483
Location Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
21°17′49″N 157°49′01″W / 21.297°N 157.817°W / 21.297; -157.817Coordinates: 21°17′49″N 157°49′01″W / 21.297°N 157.817°W / 21.297; -157.817
Campus Urban, 320 acres (1.3 km2)
Colors Green, White
         
Athletics NCAA - National Collegiate Athletic Association, Division I
Big West (most sports); MW, MPSF
Nickname "Rainbow Warriors" (men)
"Rainbow Wahine" (women)
Affiliations
Website manoa.hawaii.edu
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University rankings
National
ARWU 62-71
Forbes 362
U.S. News & World Report 169
Washington Monthly 258
Global
ARWU 151–200
QS 343
Times 201-250
U.S. News & World Report 328

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (also known as U.H. Mānoa, the University of Hawaiʻi, or simply U.H.) is a public co-educational research university as well as the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system. The school is located in Mānoa, an affluent neighborhood of Honolulu,Honolulu County, Hawaiʻi, United States, approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and one mile (1.6 km) from Ala Moana and Waikiki. The campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth of Mānoa Valley. The John A. Burns School of Medicine, part of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, is located in Kaka'ako, adjacent to the Kaka'ako Waterfront Park. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges from the western mainland U.S. and is governed by the Hawaii State Legislature and a semi-autonomous board of regents, which in turn, hires a president to be administrator. This university campus also houses the main offices of the entire University of Hawaiʻi system.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa was founded in 1907 as a land-grant college of agriculture and mechanical arts. A bill by Maui Representative William Coelho introduced into the Territorial Legislature March 1, 1907 and signed into law March 23rd by the Governor enabled construction to begin. In 1912 it was renamed the College of Hawaii and moved to its present location. William Kwai Fong Yap petitioned the Hawaii Territorial Legislature six years later for university status which led to another renaming finally to the University of Hawaii in 1920. This is also the founding year of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1931 the Territorial Normal and Training School was absorbed into the University, becoming the U.H. College of Education.


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