The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is also known as ShanghaiRanking. All the data used in ARWU is from third parties and publicly available. ARWU does not use data directly from universities. This ranking uses six indicators to rank world universities, including journal publications and academic citations. Each year more than 2,500 universities are ranked and the best 1,000 are published. Learn more about ShanghaiRanking.

Released on August 15, 2025:

• UH Mānoa World University Ranking: 301-400
• UH Mānoa Overall Ranking in the U.S.:  79-96

Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

Released on November 18, 2025:

• Oceanography: #7 in the world
• Atmospheric Science: 11
• Hospitality & Tourism Management: 32
• Earth Sciences: 51-75
• Public Administration: 76-100
• Ecology: 76-100
• Communication: 151-200
• Education: 151-200
• Water Resources: 201-300
• Biological Sciences: 201-300
• Political Sciences: 201-300

Note: Rankings appear as a range when no more specific information is available.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings evaluate world-class universities using 18 performance indicators across multiple aspects: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings examine only a globally competitive, research-led elite group of institutions through a year-on-year comparison based on true performance rather than methodological change. The underlying database that fuels the rankings contains more than 2,000 institutions in total, selected for deeper data collection and analysis on the basis of their research publication output and impact. The final rankings list is restricted and comprises only the first 200 placed universities – representing only 1% of higher education institutions in the world. Learn more about Times Higher Education rankings.

Released on October 9, 2025:

• UH Mānoa World University Ranking: 251-300
• UH Mānoa Overall Ranking in the U.S.: 63

Released on January 21, 2026:

• Subject Ranking of Education Studies: 101-125
• Subject Ranking of Physical Sciences: 126-150
• Subject Ranking of Arts & Humanities: 151-175
• Subject Ranking of Law: 201-250
• Subject Ranking of Life Sciences: 201-250
• Subject Ranking of Social Sciences: 251-300
• Subject Ranking of Psychology: 301-400 
• Subject Ranking of Medical and Health: 301-400
• Subject Ranking of Business & Economics: 401-500

Note: Rankings appear as a range when no more specific information is available.

The QS World University Rankings were launched in 2004 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a global provider of specialist higher education and careers information and solutions, based in London. Initially centered on research, teaching, and international outlook metrics, graduate employability was added the following year as fundamental feature to form the four central pillars upon which the rankings are based today. QS rankings are compiled by the QS Intelligence Unit in consultation with the QS Global Academic Advisory Board. Bibliometric data required in the citation score sections of the methodology is supplied by Scopus, part of Elsevier, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of research literature. The QS World University Rankings currently considers more than 4,000 universities in the world and evaluates over 1,500. Learn more about QS Rankings.

Released on June 19, 2025:

• UH Mānoa World University Ranking: 546
• UH Mānoa Overall Ranking in the U.S.: 77

Released on April 10, 2024:

Broad Subject Area of Arts and Humanities: worldwide: 210

• • Archaeology: worldwide: 151-200 
  • English Language & Literature:  worldwide: 101-150
  • Linguistics:  worldwide: 22
  • Modern Languages:  worldwide: 101-150 

Broad Subject Area of Life Sciences and Medicine: worldwide: 401-450

• • Agriculture: worldwide: 151-200 
  • Biological Sciences: worldwide: 351-400
  • Medicine: worldwide: 551-600
  • Psychology: worldwide: 251-300

Broad Subject Area of Natural Sciences: worldwide: 292

• • Earth & Marine Sciences: worldwide: 51-100
  • Environmental Sciences: worldwide: 251-300
  • Geography: worldwide: 101-150
  • Geology: worldwide: 49
  • Geophysics: worldwide: 47
  • Physics and Astronomy: worldwide: 151-200 

Broad Subject Area of Social Sciences and Management worldwide: 451-500

• • Anthropology: worldwide: 51-100 
  • Business & Management Studies: worldwide: 401-450 
  • Communication & Media Studies: worldwide: 151-200
  • Economics & Econometrics: worldwide: 451-500
  • Education: worldwide: 201-250
  • Hospitality & Leisure Management: worldwide: 46
  • Law: worldwide: 351-370
  • Politics & International Studies: worldwide: 201-250
  • Sociology: worldwide: 201-250

Broad Subject Area of Engineering and Technology

• • Computer Science & Information Systems: worldwide: 501-550

QS World University Rankings Report    QS World University Rankings Methodology

QS World University Subject Rankings Report    QS Subject Areas Rankings Methodology

The U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings were developed in the summer and fall of 2014 and the first edition was published on October 28, 2014. The U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings obtains all its rankings data for all the ranking indicators (reputation, publications, citations, highly cited papers and school specific data on enrollment, faculty, etc.) from Thomson Reuters. UHM is included among the top 500 institutions based on the bibliometric data and the reputation survey results.

Released on June 17, 2025:

• UH Mānoa World University Ranking: 483
• UH Mānoa Overall Ranking in the U.S.: not provided
• UHM Regional Research Reputation: 117
• Subject Ranking of Marine and Freshwater Biology: #26 in the world
• Subject Ranking of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences: 54
• Subject Ranking of Geosciences: 82
• Subject Ranking of Space Science: 90
• Subject Ranking of Arts and Humanities: 131
• Subject Ranking of Ecology: 169
• Subject Ranking of Plant and Animal Science: 193

U.S. News the Best Global Universities Rankings Methodology

U.S. News Best Grad Schools and Programs Rankings 

Released on April 8, 2025:

General Graduate Areas:

• College of Education: 65
• School of Engineering: 163
• School of Nursing
  • Doctoral Program: 43
  • Master’s Program: –
• School of Medicine
  • Graduate Primary Care: Tier 1
  • Graduate Research: Tier 2
• School of Business
  • Full-time MBA: –
  • Part-time MBA: 132
• School of Law: 99
  • Constitutional Law: 98
  • Contracts/Commercial Law: 98
  • Dispute Resolution: 72
  • Environmental Law: 36
  • International Law: 45
  • Legal Writing: 51
• Natural Sciences
  • Graduate Biological Sciences: 100
  • Graduate Chemistry: 161
  • Graduate Mathematics: 125
  • Graduate Physics: 105
  • Computer Science: 110
• Ocean, Earth Science and Technology
  • Graduate Earth Sciences: 42
• Social Work
  • Graduate Social Work: 51
  • Graduate Public Health: 99
• Social Sciences
  • Graduate Psychology: 124
  • Graduate Public Administration: 82
  • Graduate Clinical Psychology: 78
  • Graduate Political Science (PhD): 107
  • Graduate Sociology (PhD): 104
  • Graduate Economics (PhD): 113
• Library and Information Sciences Program: 36

Rankings Methodology     U.S. News Best Grad Schools Rankings FAQ

U.S. News Best College Rankings

The U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings evaluate U.S.-based institutions on up to 17 indicators that are focused on student outcomes, including retention and graduation rates.

Released on September 23, 2025:

• UH Mānoa Overall Ranking in the U.S.: 169
• Top Public Schools: 92
• Undergraduate Engineering Programs: 150
• Nursing: 118
• Economics: 139
• Best Colleges for Veterans: 122
• Top Performers on Social Mobility: 189

U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings Methodology

Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities by National Taiwan University (NTU) (Released in September 2023)

The Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities is released by National Taiwan University, also known as NTU Ranking. This Ranking provides overall rankings, rankings by six fields, and rankings by 14 selected subjects. NTU ranking employs bibliometric methods to analyze and rank the world’s top 500 universities selected from more than 4000 research institutions listed in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI). View more information about NTU Ranking.

• UHM Overall Ranking in the world: 456
• UHM Overall Ranking in U.S.: 117
• Agriculture: 212
• Social Sciences: 297
• Natural Sciences: 260
• Life Sciences: 401-450

NTU Ranking Methodolgoy: Sample Selection    Indicators    Field Categories    Subject Categories

World Universities Rankings 

RUR World University Ranking evaluates performance of higher education institutions worldwide since 2010 until now. Over the 9 years, 1100 world’s leading universities from 85 countries took part in the RUR Rankings. RUR Ranking evaluates performance of 783 world’s leading higher education institutions by 20 indicators grouped into four key areas: teaching, research, internationalization, financial sustainability. View more information about Round University Rankings.

Released on May, 2023:

• UHM World University Ranking: 490
• UHM Overall Ranking in U.S.: 118
• Teaching Ranking: 187
• Research Ranking: 795
• International Diversity Ranking: 542
• Financial Sustainability Ranking: 490

Subject Ranking in the world

Released on October 2023:

• Humanities: 115 (37 in U.S.)
• Natural Sciences: 172 (56 in U.S.)
• Technical Sciences: 380 (87 in U.S.)

Round University Rankings Methodology

NSF Higher Education R&D Rankings (FY 2020 data released in January 2022)

The Higher Education Research and Development (R&D) Survey is released by The National Science Foundation. The survey is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at U.S. colleges and universities. Information collected includes fields of research, sources of funds, types of research and expenses, and headcounts of R&D personnel. Eligible institutions are the 906 universities and colleges that grant a bachelor’s degree or higher, and expended at least $150,000 in R&D in the fiscal year 2017.

The Info Brief showing the key findings and overall trends in R&D at universities and colleges is available here.

• R&D Expenditures Ranking in U.S.: 91
• R&D Expenditures Ranking among U.S. Public Universities: 62
• Federally Financed R&D Expenditures Ranking in the U.S.: 82
• Non-Federally Financed R&D Expenditures Ranking in the U.S.:
  • Institutional Funds: 90
  • State and Local Governments: 63
  • Nonprofit Organizations: 95
  • Business: 172
  • All other Funding Sources: 153

Higher Education R&D Methodology

U‐Multirank is prepared with seed funding from the European Union and led by a consortium headed by Professor Dr. Frans van Vught of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) in the Netherlands, and Professor Dr. Frank Ziegele of the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) in Germany. U‐Multirank is a new multi‐dimensional, user‐driven approach to international ranking of higher education institutions. The dimensions it includes are teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and regional engagement. For more information, please click here.

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is strongest in Research. Its overall profile shows top performance across various indicators, with 2″A” scores overall. Grade A means that a university scores on an indicator in the top 25% of the whole sample. For more Mānoa information, please click here.

U-Multirank 2021-2022

CWTS Leiden Ranking (2022)

CWTS Leiden Ranking is released by Leiden University, Netherlands. The Leiden Ranking uses a sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators to provide statistics on the scientific impact of universities and on universities’ involvement in scientific collaboration. It does not rely on highly subjective data obtained from reputational surveys, or on data provided by universities themselves.

The Leiden Ranking provides size-dependent and size-independent indicators when presenting results. MIRO chose size-independent indicators because (a) size-independent indicators have been corrected for the size of the publication output of a university, so when size-independent indicators are used, both larger and smaller universities may perform well; and (b) there is not much difference in UH Mānoa’s rankings regardless of size-independent indicators or size-dependent indicators. For more information, please click here.

Type of indicators: impact (measured by citations)

• P: Number of publications (2017-2020)
• PP(top 1%): Proportion of top 1% publications
• PP(top 10%): Proportion of top 10% publications
• PP(top 50%): Proportion of top 50% publications
• The orange highlight is the max in the column.

Type of indicators: collaboration (measured by co-authorships)

• P: Number of publications (2017-2020)
• PP(collab): Proportion of interinstitutional collaborative publications
• PP(int collab): Proportion of international collaborative publications
• PP(industry): Proportion of collaborative publications with industry
• The orange highlight is the max in the column.

CWTS Leiden Ranking Methodology

Nature Index

The Nature Index is a database of author affiliation information collected from research articles published in an independently selected group of 68 high-quality science journals. It provides a close to real-time proxy for high-quality research output at the institutional, national and regional level.

For more information, please click here.

• Earth & Environmental Sciences (2022 ranking) (Released onAug 30, 2022):
  • In the World: 47th
  • In U.S.: 19th

UH Mānoa Reports

Nature Index Methodology

MIRO led panel presentations with major international rankings at the annual conference of the Association of Institutional Research (AIR) in 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019. Each presentation was selected to be among only 30 sessions that were recorded, and both are available through AIR’s digital pass program. Please view the following links to access the presentation documents.

2015 AIR presentation “International Ranking and Institutional Research”
Presenters’ Bios, PowerPoint Presentation, International Ranking Q&A, AIR Recorded Video

2016 AIR presentation “International Rankings Go Deeper and Wider: More Subjects and More Universities to be Ranked”
Presenters’ Bios, PowerPoint Presentation, International Subject Ranking Q&A

2018 AIR presentation “Rankers Updates: What Institutional Researchers Should Know”
Presenters’ Bios, PowerPoint Presentation, International Ranking Updates Q&A, AIR Recorded Video

2019 AIR presentation “Rankers Updates: What Institutional Researchers Should Know”
Presenters’ Bios, PowerPoint Presentation, International Ranking Updates Q&A)

2022 AIR presentation “Decode, Track, and Use Ranking Information”
PowerPoint Presentation, International Ranking Updates Q&A