2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Hawaii

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Civil Engineering is the 45th most popular major in the country with 21,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,122 and had an average of $23,807 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 104 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,400 and $16,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 84 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,142 and $24,022 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality civil engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the civil engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$15,030 Average Net Price

$59,253 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Hawaii at Manoa is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 84 bachelors’s civil eng degrees to qualified students.

UH Manoa did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. The yearly cost to attend UH Manoa is $15,030 for Hawaii Bachelor’s Degree Civil Eng students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UH Manoa Civil Engineering Report

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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