2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Public Health in Hawaii

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General Public Health is the 39th most popular major in the country with 22,778 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Hawaii, there were 104 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 general public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,867 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Health Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general public health. That schools that top this list have a program in general public health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Health Major in Hawaii

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii master’s degree general public health students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Public Health in Hawaii

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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 General Public Health 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 located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s general public health degrees to qualified students.

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%.

Full Hawaii Pacific University General Public Health Report

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Public Health Major in Hawaii list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general public health degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Public Health at UH Manoa

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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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