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

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Chemistry is the 51st most popular major in the country with 21,239 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, chemistry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,656 and had an average of $22,680 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 26 chemistry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 chemistry 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 Chemistry Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in chemistry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in chemistry.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Chemistry Major in Hawaii”.

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

1

University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, Hawaii

#7 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Hilo. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Chemistry Major in Hawaii list. Located in Hilo, Hawaii, this small public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s chemistry students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Chemistry at University of Hawaii at Hilo

2

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 #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Chemistry Major in Hawaii. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this fairly large public school handed out 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s chemistry students 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%.

Full UH Manoa Chemistry Report

3

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Chemistry Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s chemistry degrees 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 Chemistry 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.