Facilities

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The University has a 115-acre main campus with an adjoining 487-acre University Park of Science and Technology, a 21-acre Manono Campus, a 110-acre Panaʻewa Agricultural Farm Laboratory, 33 acres slated for development as the China-U.S. Center, and a 10-acre Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Research Center at Keaukaha sub-division of Hilo. To serve the needs of the University, there are close to a million square feet of classrooms, laboratory facilities, library and media services center, faculty offices, administrative and student services facilities, residence halls, theater, campus center, student activities and athletic complex, tennis courts, and playing fields.

The newest facility constructed is the new Student Life Center, which opened in Fall 2008. Currently under construction is the new Science and Technology Building. Approved for planning, design, and/or construction in the near future are the following:

• College of Hawaiian Language Building
• a new Student Services Building
• a new Bookstore
• temporary facilities for the College of Pharmacy
• a new parking lot.

UH Hilo offers courses elsewhere on Hawaiʻi Island at the university education centers in Kealakekua on the west side and at the North Hawaiʻi Educational Research Center (NHERC) in Honokaʻa on the northeast side, as well as via interactive television and Web-based instruction at various university centers throughout the Hawaiian islands.