Whether students are from Hawai‘i, the continental U.S. or abroad, the CSS Global College Initiative (GCI) provides a wide range of learning and experiential opportunities. Through exchange and fellowship programs, innovative in-person and online learning, and partnerships across the globe, students gain valuable leadership and cross-cultural skills. Rooted in Hawaiʻiʻs diverse heritage and the aloha spirit, GCI fosters global citizenship while preparing students to thrive in an interconnected world.
Opportunities for International Students
Short-term Programs
CSS offers customized one- to four-week programs that combine academic instruction with hands-on learning, immersive field trips and cultural activities. Participants engage directly with the host community through tailored coursework and experiential learning that meet specific learning objectives while fostering personal growth and global awareness.
Virtual Study Programs
Explore the international study experience through virtual opportunities with partner institutions. Options include Collaborative Online International Learning in Ethnic Studies and Geography and the Environment, and a four-week virtual program that focuses on academic English skills and culture, sustainability and peace.
Global Scholars Program: Certificate in Social Sciences
The Global Scholars Program provides students from CSS partner universities with the chance to study in Hawaiʻi for a semester or a year, combining English language training, select social science courses, and a practical internship. Global Scholars will be fully integrated into the campus life of UH Mānoa.
Aloha Pathways: Global
CSS offers Aloha Pathways for international students attending select U.S. partner colleges to smoothly transfer to UH Mānoa. CSS is also developing direct transfer pathways for students at select international partner universities. These pathways often involve scholarship opportunities.
International Opportunities for Current UH Mānoa Students
Manoa International Exchange (MIX)
The Mānoa International Exchange Office assists students who want to study abroad. No foreign language ability is needed.
Study Abroad Program
Acquire knowledge through academic work in other countries and develop cross-cultural understanding through cultural immersion.
Virtual Study Programs
UH Mānoa students can take a few online CSS courses with students from partner universities. Options include Collaborative Online International Learning in Ethnic Studies and Geography and the Environment.
Killam Fellowship Program from Fulbright Canada
Scholarship opportunities for exchange study at a partner university in Canada.
NEAEF Emerging Leaders Program
Fellowships to advanced students and emerging professionals from Northeast Asia and the U.S. to participate in a summer multi-week program! Enhance knowledge of the social, economic, and political institutions of the individual countries of Northeast Asia and North America with like-minded Leaders from the region.
Mānoa Academy Global
Students attending Hawaiʻi high schools have the opportunity to take college courses and earn college credit while still in high school. CSS Manoa Academy programs provide incoming UH Mānoa students with the opportunity to study abroad.
Field Schools
Take advantage of opportunities to participate in instructional, field-based archaeological and ethnographic research for academic credit.
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