Time-to-Degree (or Time-to-Completion) measures the length of time students take to finish a degree. At the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, undergraduate Time-to-Degree is reported separately for first-time full-time students and transfer students.

*** Please Note: The latest reports will be made available when data are released by the UH System Institutional Research, Analysis & Planning Office (IRAPO).

MIRO produces a Time-to-Degree Analysis Brief with further details on how undergraduate time-to-degree is calculated, and multiple years of time-to-degree statistics for first-time and transfer undergraduate students.

Undergraduate Time-to-Degree Brief

First-time Full-Time Freshmen

At the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, time-to-degree for undergraduate students in general and for different types of student populations are only examined among degrees awarded to students who started as first-time full-time freshmen. This is because transfer students bring in different numbers of transfer credits, so they are not included to allow for a more reliable, apples-to-apples comparison across years.

First-time, Full-time Freshmen

By Gender:     Female  Male

By Geographic Origin:    Hawaiʻi   US Mainland  US National/CFAS  International

By Race & Ethnicity:

Race	Ethnicity
Hispanic/Latino	N/A
White	N/A
Asian	Japanese   Chinese     Filipino   Korean   Vietnamese   Mixed Asian
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	Native Hawaiian or Part-Hawaiian
Multiracial	N/A

Note 1: The race categories American Indian and Alaska Native and Black or African American are not reported due to small sample sizes. 

Note 2: Under the race category Asian, the following ethnicities are not reported due to small sample sizes: Thai, Laotian, Asian Indian, and Other Asian.

Note 3: Under the race category Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, the following ethnicities are not reported due to small sample sizes: Guamanian or Chamorro, Micronesian, Samoan, Tongan, Other Pacific Islander, and Mixed Pacific Islander.

Transfer Students

Transfer students’ time-to-degree is tracked at different educational levels, based on the number of credits transferred in. Transfers with a first-semester course load status of full-time or part-time are also separated to enable comparable statistics.

Full-time Transfer Freshmen	Full-time Transfer Sophomores	Full-time Transfer Juniors	Full-time Transfer Seniors
Part-time Transfer Freshmen	Part-time Transfer Sophomores	Part-time Transfer Juniors	Part-time Transfer Seniors