2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Hawaii

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Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 66,787 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,115 and had an average of $25,414 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 265 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,439 and $21,202 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,867 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in communication and media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Hawaii

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Hawaii

1

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the #1 spot on the list. Hawaii Pacific University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 5 masters’s communications 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 full report on Communication & Media Studies at Hawaii Pacific University

2

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Hawaii list. UH Manoa is a fairly large public school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 16 masters’s communications degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UH Manoa Communication & Media Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies

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 UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.