The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the main campus of the greater University of Hawaiʻi system. The school is located in Mānoa, an urban neighborhood community of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and one mile from Ala Moana and Waikīkī. The campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth of the greater Mānoa Valley. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and is governed by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature and a semi-autonomous Board of Regents, which in turn hires a president to be administrator.