Hawaii's largest private university, founded in 1965 with downtown Honolulu and Windward Oahu campuses, drawing students from over 100 countries with strong marine biology and nursing programs.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public research university in Honolulu and the flagship of the University of Hawaii system.

Private university on Oahu's North Shore in Laie operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, enrolling about 2,500 students from 70 countries and operating the adjacent Polynesian Cultural Center.

Hawaii's only Catholic university, founded in 1955 by the Marianists in Honolulu's Kaimuki neighborhood, offering degrees through the doctoral level.

Fourth-generation, family-owned Kona coffee farm on Hawaii Island dating to 1850, growing its own coffee and purchasing cherry from over 400 Kona-region farmers for worldwide shipment.

Honolulu-headquartered parent of Hawaiian Host and Mauna Loa, the world's largest branded macadamia-nut company, with additional offices in Hilo, Kona, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

The largest coffee farm in the United States, growing over 4 million coffee trees on 3,100 acres on Kauai's south shore, converted from the former McBryde Sugar plantation in 1987.