2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Hawaii

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Hawaii” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 3,911 people earned their degree in biotechnology, making the major the 174th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biotechnology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,907 and had an average of $20,555 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 14 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 biotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Hawaii” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biotechnology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biotechnology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Hawaii” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Hawaii”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Biotechnology in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Hawaii. UH Manoa is a fairly large public school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 14 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biotechnology at University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hawaii Pacific University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Biotech Major in Hawaii list. This small school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s biotech degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Biotechnology at Hawaii Pacific University

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.