2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Communications for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
244
Degrees Awarded
$29,439
Avg Salary
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Communications for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 244 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Communications for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in communication and media studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communication and media studies programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Communications for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Communications for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Communications for a Bachelor’s list. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 143 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
UH Manoa did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list.Of the 18,025 students enrolled at UH Manoa, 3 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 4 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $22,153. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UH Manoa Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Hilo. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Communications for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Hilo, Hawaii, this small public school handed out 46 degrees to qualified bachelors’s communications students in 2020-2021.
UH Hilo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list.According to our most recent data, UH Hilo supports 3,165 students, and 147 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 75 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $5,970. In addition to receiving other benefits, 3 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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