2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Philosophy is the 83rd most popular major in the country with 10,054 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, philosophy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,510 and had an average of $21,514 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 27 philosophy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 philosophy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in philosophy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in philosophy.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Philosophy Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii” list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii bachelor’s degree philosophy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, Hawaii

#7 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Hilo. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii. This small school is located in Hilo, Hawaii, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s philosophy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Philosophy at University of Hawaii at Hilo

2

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a fairly large school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 15 bachelors’s philosophy degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Philosophy at UH Manoa

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Philosophy

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.