Admissions & selectivity
University of Hawaii at Manoa Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Hawaii at Manoa?
University of Hawaii at Manoa’s reported acceptance rate is 86.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 86.6%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
University of Hawaii at Manoa admits 86.6% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Hawaii at Manoa students report?
The SAT scores of enrolled students who submitted them range from 1,081 at the 25th percentile to 1,293 at the 75th. For the ACT, the corresponding range is 17 to 25.
These are the middle half of scores from recent entrants who chose to submit, not a cutoff for admission. An applicant can use the university's own 1,081–1,293 SAT band and 17–25 ACT band as a reference point, understanding that the numbers describe enrolled submitters rather than a required threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1081
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1293
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Hawaii at Manoa?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 26.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 34.7%
- First-year retention
- 80.7%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
The undergraduate body of 15,029 at University of Hawaii at Manoa is shaped by two large entry points. An estimated 34.7% of students arrive as transfers or part-time students, and 26.2% receive Pell Grants.
That means the campus is built around students continuing work begun elsewhere as much as those who started as first-year students, alongside a substantial group using federal grant aid.
Completion and retention both sit below the peer medians, giving enrolled students a cohort-level picture of persistence through graduation. For full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year students, the retention rate is 80.7%, below the 83.1% peer median for comparable institutions.
The first-time full-time cohort has a 64.3% six-year graduation rate, below the 65.0% peer median. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 59.6% six-year completion rate, below the overall rate by 4.7 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect these rates to describe past cohorts, not an individual timetable. Lower retention and graduation figures relative to peers point in the same direction.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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