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

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Religious Studies is the 90th most popular major in the country with 9,470 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,289 and had an average of $24,431 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 20 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in religious studies. That schools that top this list have a program in religious studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious Studies in Hawaii

1

Pacific Rim Christian University
Honolulu, Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pacific Rim Christian University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Hawaii. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s religion students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Pacific Rim Christian University Religious Studies Report

2

Chaminade University of Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii

#4 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Chaminade University of Honolulu landed the #2 spot on the list. Chaminade University of Honolulu is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s religion degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Religious Studies at Chaminade University of Honolulu

3

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Religion Major in Hawaii. This fairly large school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s religion degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Religious Studies at UH Manoa

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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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