UH, Hilo will prepare you well to make lifelong contributions to your community, the State, and the world as you build a prosperous future. Classwork, extracurricular activities, and recreational time at UH Hilo are greatly enriched by our diverse university community of local, mainland, and international students, living and learning together in a harmonious and safe environment. The surrounding island community, rooted in a history of agriculture, is one of the most ethnically diverse countries.
The island landscape is also extraordinarily diverse with snow-capped mountains, windy deserts, lush rainforests, endangered coral reefs, protective estuaries, active volcanoes, and more. Most importantly, we live on an island home to our indigenous host culture, and everything we do is infused with Native Hawaiian values of cultural knowledge and language.
In addition to classroom study, there are many opportunities for internships, collaborative research with professors, and community outreach. These are the kinds of experiences that enhance professional prospects.
The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo is characterized as a comprehensive, regional university. Scholarship and research are an essential part of faculty work and student engagement, but the primary focus is on providing high-quality baccalaureate and limited postgraduate education.
While UH Hilo actively recruits residents of Hawaiʻi Island, its programs are also attractive to prospective students from other islands, the mainland U.S., and internationally. Students across the State may select UH Hilo not only for its distinctive undergraduate programs but for its rural setting, its intimate character, or for an interest in leaving home without leaving the State.
UH, Hilo offers two Ph. D. programs, the Doctor of Pharmacy, three master's programs unique in the UH system, and the Doctorate of Nursing Practice program with a rural focus. UH, Hilo will continue to offer its unique programs and efforts at the postgraduate level while maintaining these graduate programs' quality and relevance and ensuring appropriate enrollments for the foreseeable future.
At the University of Hawaiʻi Hilo, we find our inspiration in the unique community and excellent environment surrounding us every day. If there was ever a place to be inspired, this is it. Join us, and find what inspires you. The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo places as its number one priority a commitment to academic excellence. This dedication to quality education can be found in each of the six colleges, with many programs and activities not found anywhere else in the world. Where else will you find Computer Science students placing in the top six percent on national computer science exams, studying alongside Hawaiian Studies students who are working their way toward the only master's degree in an indigenous language offered in the nation?
The International Student Services & Intercultural Education (ISS & IE) program has two primary missions. The first is to help international students clarify and attain their academic and personal goals while complying with their immigration status regulations. ISS & IE serves as an interface between UH Hilo and international students to facilitate communication, understanding, and appreciation. The second mission is to facilitate and assist all students at UH Hilo, regardless of national origin, developing intercultural competence. Ultimately, international education goals are to advance learning and scholarship and increase intercultural awareness, understanding, and competency in our increasingly global community.
On Hawai'i Island, inspiration is everywhere in the land, sky, and sea, in the people we meet on forest trails, local markets, and our classrooms. Built on the coastal slopes of the world's largest mountain and centered in the Pacific Ocean, the University of Hawai'i Hilo challenges empowers and inspires our students. As a university community, we draw our inspiration from the people we call 'ohana, and the island we call home.
In Hawai'i, we know the land, the 'āina, sustains us. The earth is more than a resource. It is our source of life. Surrounded by an incredible combination of high mountains and deep ocean, lush rainforest and arid fields of lava, we are inspired to understand our world through bold scholarship and care for our environment through a responsible relationship with our living earth and the community of life it sustains.
Courageous voyagers discovered our island home, and their legacy inspires us to follow in the wake of their double-hulled canoes. A UH Hilo education is designed for discovery from sea stars to supernovae; our focus on hands-on learning allows our students and expert faculty to discover the world together. Research in the field, internships with local businesses and organizations, small class sizes that encourage the honest exchange of ideas, and our university supported exchange programs all come together to inspire our students to discover their talents and passions by exploring the world.
Getting to and from campus can be done by the county bus, sharing a ride, car, bike, or walking. The county bus, which stops on campus throughout the day, also travels throughout the Big Island, enabling students to visit the Big Island's rich and varied cultural and outdoor activities and attractions.
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