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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 17,830 people earned their degree in hospitality management, making the major the 61st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,271 and had an average of $21,829 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 355 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,200 and $16,747 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 141 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,142 and $24,022 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in hospitality management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent hospitality management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii bachelor’s degree hospitality students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Hospitality Management in Hawaii

#1

Brigham Young University - Hawaii

Laie, Hawaii

#2 in overall quality

$14,051 Average Net Price

$27,295 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Hawaii landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Laie, Hawaii, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 53 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s hospitality students in 2019-2020.

BYU - H also made our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend BYU - H is $14,051 for hawaii bachelor’s degree hospitality students.

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#2

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$15,030 Average Net Price

$40,768 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Hospitality Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 88 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Hospitality Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Hawaii at Manoa is $15,030 for Hawaii Bachelor’s Degree Hospitality students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Hospitality Management 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.

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