2023 Most Focused Colleges for Philosophy in Hawaii

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 10,054 people earned their degree in philosophy, making the major the 83rd most popular in the United States. 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.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in philosophy. That schools that top this list have a program in philosophy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii

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

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Philosophy in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, Hawaii

#7 overall quality in Hawaii

$39,336 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,111 Average Student Debt

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 Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii. This small school is located in Hilo, Hawaii, and it awarded 9 ’s philosophy degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UH Hilo Philosophy Report

2

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 join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in Hawaii. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this fairly large public school awarded 18 diplomas to qualified ’s philosophy students 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%.

Full UH Manoa Philosophy 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.