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

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In 2020-2021, 6,024 people earned their degree in geology and earth sciences, making the major the 125th most popular in the United States.

Across Hawaii, there were 34 geology and earth sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 geology and earth sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geology Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in geology and earth sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their geology and earth sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geology & Earth Sciences in Hawaii

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University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, Hawaii

#7 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geology Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Hilo landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Hilo, Hawaii, this small public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geology students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Geology & Earth Sciences at University of Hawaii at Hilo

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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 Geology Major in Hawaii. This fairly large school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s geology 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 Geology & Earth Sciences at University of Hawaii at 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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