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IWORK: Onward and Upward

January 2023

Donor-Fueled Growth

Thanks in part to donor support, BYU–Hawaii has achieved a fourfold increase in the number of IWORK students over the past 10 years.

A bar chart showing a 4x increase in the number of IWORK students from 303 students in 2012 to 1,249 students in 2022. And a donut chart showing that 48 percent of the IWORK program is funded by donors.

Shift to Focus Area

Growth of the IWORK program has enabled BYU–Hawaii to make significant progress in its mission to serve students primarily from Oceania and the Asian Rim.

A world map showing what percentage of BYU–Hawaii students come from different parts of the world: 37 percent from the US Mainland, 24 percent from the Asian Rim, 18 percent from Oceania, 11 percent from the Philippines, 8 percent from Hawaii, and 2 percent from other areas of the world.

Continued Progress

With ongoing, donor-sustained growth of the IWORK program, BYU–Hawaii expects to reach its goal of having 75 percent of its students come from its focus areas by 2025.

A chart showing that BYU–Hawaii’s goal by 2025 is to have 2,000 IWORK students and to have 75 percent of its students come from its focus areas.

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