2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in Hawaii

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in Hawaii” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Public Administration is the 58th most popular major in the country with 17,269 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $48,859 and had an average of $42,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 152 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,767 and $17,493 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,032 and $14,475 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public administration programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public administration program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in Hawaii

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii associate degree public admin students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Hawaii

#1

Hawaii Pacific University

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$27,508 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hawaii Pacific University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Public Admin Schools for an Associate in Hawaii list. Hawaii Pacific University is a small school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 3 associates’s public admin degrees in 2019-2020.

Hawaii Pacific University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration Associate Degree Schools in Hawaii” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Hawaii Pacific University is $27,508 for hawaii associate degree public admin students.

Full Hawaii Pacific University Public Administration 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

• *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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