2023 Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
134
Degrees Awarded
$30,814
Avg Salary
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Social Sciences is the 54th most popular major in the country with 18,997 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,991 and had an average of $24,438 in loans still to pay off.
Across Hawaii, there were 134 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,814 and $22,064 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 134 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general social sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful general social sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii bachelor’s degree social sciences students.
Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in Hawaii
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii - West Oahu. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s. University of Hawaii - West Oahu is a small school located in Kapolei, Hawaii that handed out 134 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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 West Oahu General Social Sciences Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Social Sciences Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Chaminade University of Honolulu landed the #2 spot on the list. Chaminade University of Honolulu is a small school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 0 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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 Chaminade University of Honolulu General Social Sciences 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
- *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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