2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Hawaii

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Professions is the 16th most popular major in the country with 61,055 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, legal professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,649 and had an average of $28,699 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 140 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,647 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,980 and $16,727 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their legal professions program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Hawaii” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Hawaii”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Hawaii

1

Kapiolani Community College
Honolulu, Hawaii

#5 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kapiolani Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Hawaii list. Kapiolani Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 12 associates’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Legal Professions at Kapiolani Community College

2

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified associates’s legal professions students in 2020-2021.

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 Legal Professions 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

• *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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