2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Biotechnology is the 242nd most popular major in the country with 3,585 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Hawaii, there were 11 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,142 and $24,022 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biotechnology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the biotechnology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$15,030 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Biotech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this fairly large public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s biotech students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UH Manoa, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biotechnology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” ranking. It costs about $15,030 for Hawaii Bachelor’s Degree Biotech students per year to attend UH Manoa.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biotechnology at UH Manoa

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Henk Caspers/Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

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