Colleges Near Honolulu

Honolulu's college options all sit on a single island, which makes "metro" here more literal than most: the University of Hawaii at Manoa is the state's flagship, BYU-Hawaii sits up the coast in Laie, and UH-West Oahu, Hawaii Pacific, and Chaminade round out the rest as comprehensive, open-admission options. Every school on this page admits at least 47% of applicants -- a genuinely small, self-contained market rather than a range running from reach to safety.