2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Hawaii

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In 2020-2021, 16,905 people earned their degree in public administration, making the major the 60th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $51,352 and had an average of $29,054 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 186 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,241 and $20,937 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 145 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public administration. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public administration.

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

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

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

1

University of Hawaii - West Oahu
Kapolei, Hawaii

#8 overall quality in Hawaii

$36,241 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,937 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii - West Oahu landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Kapolei, Hawaii, and it awarded 139 bachelors’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Hawaii - West Oahu Public Administration Report

2

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hawaii Pacific University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s public admin students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 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

• *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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