Two College of Social Sciences departments are included in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2026 Best Colleges rankings.
The Department of Economics is #130 for best undergraduate economics program, and the Department of Psychology is #196 out of the top 682 best undergraduate psychology programs in the U.S.
As a campus, UH Mānoa ranked #92 as a top U.S. public university, #122 for best colleges for veterans and #169 overall in the country. In addition, the flagship of the UH System is #189 in social mobility, which measures how well schools graduated students who were federal Pell Grant recipients.
The rankings were released on September 23, 2025.
