2023 Most Focused Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Hawaii

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Hawaii” ranking.

Natural Resource Management is the 178th most popular major in the country with 2,933 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,190 and had an average of $25,062 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 52 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,178 and $23,613 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural resource management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their natural resource management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Hawaii”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

$42,927 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,501 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Hawaii list. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 51 ’s degrees 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%.

Full UH Manoa Natural Resource Management Report

2

University of Hawaii Maui College
Kahului, Hawaii

#10 overall quality in Hawaii

$47,986 Average Early-Career Earnings

$14,929 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii Maui College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Hawaii list. UH Maui College is located in Kahului, Hawaii and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 ’s resource management degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at UH Maui College

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell.