2023 Most Well Attended Geography Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s

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Geography & Cartography is the 110th most popular major in the country with 8,526 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, geography and cartography graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,604 and had an average of $22,522 in loans still to pay off.

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

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Geography Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in geography and cartography. To top this list, a school must have a successful geography and cartography program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Geography Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Geography Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography in Hawaii

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Geography Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s geography degrees to 19 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%.

Read full report on Geography & Cartography at UH Manoa

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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 #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Geography Major in Hawaii for a Bachelor’s list. This small school is located in Hilo, Hawaii, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s geography degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Hawaii at Hilo Geography & Cartography 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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