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

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Elementary Education is the 17th most popular major in the country with 43,003 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Hawaii, there were 173 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,867 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Elementary Education 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 Elementary Teaching 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 school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 34 masters’s elementary teaching 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 Elementary Education at Hawaii Pacific University

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Chaminade University of Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii

#4 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chaminade University of Honolulu. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Elementary Teaching Major in Hawaii list. Chaminade University of Honolulu is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s elementary teaching degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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%.

Read more about Elementary Education at Chaminade University of Honolulu

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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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