2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in Hawaii

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology is the 37th most popular major in the country with 31,746 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $45,872 and had an average of $65,193 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 94 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,133 and $105,098 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 80 clinical, counseling and applied psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,195 and $40,792 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in clinical, counseling and applied psychology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent clinical, counseling and applied psychology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the clinical, counseling and applied psychology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Hilo

Hilo, Hawaii

#3 in overall quality

$27,062 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$41,937 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Hilo landed the #1 spot on the list. Hilo, Hawaii is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s clinical psychology degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

UH Hilo also made our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at UH Hilo are $27,062, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Chaminade University of Honolulu

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$24,720 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$47,520 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chaminade University of Honolulu. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii list. Chaminade University of Honolulu is a small school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 52 masters’s clinical psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

Chaminade University of Honolulu not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Chaminade University of Honolulu are $24,720.

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#3

Hawaii Pacific University

Honolulu, Hawaii

#2 in overall quality

$20,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hawaii Pacific University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Clinical Psychology Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii list. Hawaii Pacific University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 18 masters’s clinical psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

Hawaii Pacific University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Hawaii Pacific University are $20,600, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology at Hawaii Pacific University

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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