by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Hawaii” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 40,596 people earned their degree in public health, making the major the 26th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,158 and had an average of $27,396 in loans still to pay off.
Across Hawaii, there were 104 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,765 and $24,089 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 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 Public Health Major in Hawaii” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in public health. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public health.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Hawaii” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Hawaii”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 10 degrees to qualified masters’s public health students 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%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #2 spot on the list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s 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%.
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