2023 Most Popular Colleges for Information Science in Hawaii

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended IS Major in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 18,325 people earned their degree in information science, making the major the 58th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $59,394 and had an average of $28,852 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 12 information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended IS Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in information science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular information science programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended IS Major in Hawaii

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii is students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Information Science in Hawaii

1

Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Laie, Hawaii

#2 overall quality in Hawaii

$31,337 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Hawaii. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended IS Major in Hawaii. This small school is located in Laie, Hawaii, and it awarded 9 ’s IS degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Information Science at Brigham Young University - Hawaii

2

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

$40,963 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,756 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hawaii Pacific University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended IS Major in Hawaii. This small school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 3 ’s IS 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 Information Science 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.

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