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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 43,003 people earned their degree in elementary education, making the major the 17th most popular in the United States.

Across Hawaii, there were 173 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 130 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in elementary education. That schools that top this list have a program in elementary education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in Hawaii

1

Chaminade University of Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii

#4 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Chaminade University of Honolulu. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii. This small school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s elementary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Chaminade University of Honolulu Elementary Education Report

2

Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Laie, Hawaii

#2 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Hawaii landed the #2 spot on the list. BYU - H is a private not-for-profit institution located in Laie, Hawaii. The school has a small population, and it awarded 27 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full BYU - H Elementary Education Report

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Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s elementary teaching students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Elementary Education at Hawaii Pacific University

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #4 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 63 bachelors’s elementary teaching 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%.

Read full report on Elementary Education at University of Hawaii at Manoa

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education

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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