2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography in Hawaii

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in Hawaii” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 4,954 people earned their degree in geography, making the major the 159th most popular in the United States.

Across Hawaii, there were 44 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in Hawaii” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geography. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their geography program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography in Hawaii

1

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 Geography Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Hilo landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Hawaii at Hilo is a public institution located in Hilo, Hawaii. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Geography at UH 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 Geography Major in Hawaii. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s 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%.

Full University of Hawaii at Manoa Geography 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.

Credits

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