This article features top engineering colleges in Hawaii that offer master and doctoral degrees in the fields of biological engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, etc. Please be informed that each school receives national wide rank as the ranking compares all engineering schools in the United States. Some important ranking factors include average GRE scores, alumni surveys, current student interviews, institutional research publications, and peer college assessment. In the following list of best engineering schools in the state of Hawaii, you can see tuition cost for both in-state and out-of-state students, acceptable rates and admissions statistics for each top ranked engineering college.
| National Ranking | Hawaii Top Engineering Programs |
| 132 | University of Hawaii–Manoa (Honolulu, HI) Overall acceptance rate: 57.1% Average GRE quantitative score (master’s and Ph.D. students): 755 Tuition: In-state, full-time: $7,328 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $17,856 per year Total graduate engineering enrollment: 189 Research expenditures per faculty member: $178,826 Engineering school research expenditures (2010-2011 fiscal year): $9,299,000 Faculty membership in National Academy of Engineering: 0.0% |
March in the U.S. History
March 27
1513 Expedition of Juan Ponce de León first sighted the coast of Florida.
1794 The US Congress passes a bill to build six frigates, creating the US Navy.
1814 During the ” War of the Red Wands,” the US Army, led by General (and future seventh President of the United States) Andrew Jackson, defeated the Indians at the Battle of the Bend of the Tallapus River in Alabama.
1912 On the banks of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the first of over three thousand cherry trees donated by Japan were planted.
1915 In New York City, Mary Mallon, known as “Typhoid Mary”, was arrested and quarantined for life.
1964 Devastating Alaska earthquake.
1973 Marlon Brando refused an Academy Award for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather to protest discrimination against American Indians.
1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline begins.
1976 The first subway line in Washington, D.C. opened.
March 28
1776 A presidio (fort) was founded on the site of today’s San Francisco, California.
1979 The accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania is the most serious incident in the history of US nuclear power.
1990 US President George W. Bush posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal (the highest civilian award in the United States) to famed track and field athlete James “Jesse” Owens.
March 29
1638 First permanent settlement of European colonists in Delaware.
1848 Niagara Falls froze over in New York State.
1865 The Appomattox Campaign begins in Virginia , the last battle of the Civil War.
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and passing nuclear secrets to the USSR.
1973 The last American soldiers left Vietnam.
1974 Automatic interplanetary station Mariner 10 for the first time in history flew near Mercury.
March 30
1822 The United States Congress passed a resolution to create the Territory of Florida.
1867 An agreement was signed on the sale of Alaska by Russia to the United States of America.
1870 Ended ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, prohibiting restriction of the right to vote on racial grounds.
1870 Texas became the last state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War.
1909 The Queensboro Bridge was opened in New York City, connecting Manhattan and Queens.
1981 US President Ronald Reagan was wounded in an assassination attempt in Washington .
March 31
1917 The US Virgin Islands became US property.
1918 Daylight Saving Time implemented for the first time in the United States.
1933 At the initiative of US President Franklin Roosevelt , the US Congress passed a law creating the “Civilian Environmental Protection Corps”, which provided hundreds of thousands of people with jobs during the Great Depression.