2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii

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Public Administration is the 49th most popular major in the country with 16,897 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Hawaii, there were 186 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,867 and $0 respectively.

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

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Hawaii

1

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the #1 spot on the list. Hawaii Pacific University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 25 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Administration at Hawaii Pacific University

2

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #2 spot on the list. UH Manoa is a fairly large public school situated in Honolulu, Hawaii. It awarded 16 masters’s public admin 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 UH Manoa Public Administration Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the Far Western US Region
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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.