2022 Best Value Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income Over $110k) in Hawaii

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue ME Schools in Hawaii For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mechanical Engineering is the 20th most popular major in the country with 47,598 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, mechanical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,495 and had an average of $23,104 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 85 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,900 and $22,500 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great mechanical engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the mechanical engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Vallue ME Schools in Hawaii For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii me students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income Over $110k) in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$15,030 Average Net Price

$42,348 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue ME Schools in Hawaii For Those Making Over $110k. UH Manoa is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 85 ’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in Hawaii” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa is $15,030 for Hawaii ME students whose families make more than $110k.

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%.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at UH Manoa

• Best Value Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income Over $110k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income Over $110k)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.

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