Hawaii Pacific University Top Questions

The worst thing about my school is that it is devided into two campuses. One campus is in Honolulu and the other campus is on the northern side of the island. Sometimes you will have to take classes on both campuses in the same day. It makes it hard to schedule classes because you have to take the travel time between campuses into consideration. This makes it difficult when you have a job as well because some employers aren't as flexible as others.

The worst thing about my school is the administration. There are some positions that are not filled yet and paper work has not been done on a timely manner.

If I could change something about HPU, it would be the campus life. We don't really have much of a campus and it bothers me sometimes. I would also like for there to only be one campus, instead of one in Honolulu and one in Kaneohe for the science majors. It would just be much easier for the science majors if we didn't have to travel to the other side of the island for every class.

My school is still really small so the social scene is close to non existant.

The worst thing about HPU is its campus, and directly related to that, its school spirit. HPU is actually split into two campuses, which are about 20 miles away from each other. The downtown Honolulu campus is the larger of the two, but its classrooms are spread throughout the buildings of the business district. This lack of a centralized location leads to very few campus activities.

For the Marine Biology program, it would be the lack of internship opportunities. Students might graduate, never having any prior experience in thier field. Some of this is base on personal incentive, but HPU needs to cater especially to students new to Hawaii.

It's in Downtown Honolulu and there are bums on campus

I believe the worst thing in school would be the parking situation and tuition. There is not really enough parking in our windward campus and the price of parking is ridiculous. As for the tuition, it has been increasing since I have started and it is really expensive to attend this college.