2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 27 people earned their degree in Pacific Area/Pacific Rim studies, making the major the 1203rd most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 Pacific Area/Pacific Rim studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Pacific Area/Pacific Rim studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in Pacific Area/Pacific Rim studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree pacific area/pacific rim studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies

1

University of Guam
Mangilao, <nil>

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Guam. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies Major list. University of Guam is a public institution located in Mangilao, . The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UOG Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies Report

2

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies Major. UH Manoa is a fairly large school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 3 masters’s Pacific Area/Pacific Rim studies 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 Pacific Area/Pacific Rim Studies at UH Manoa

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.