2023 Schools Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Administration is the 60th most popular major in the country with 16,905 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in public administration. That schools that top this list have a program in public administration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii

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

Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Public Administration in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii - West Oahu
Kapolei, Hawaii

#8 overall quality in Hawaii

$37,094 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,790 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii - West Oahu. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii. This small school is located in Kapolei, Hawaii, and it awarded 139 ’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%.

Read full report on Public Administration at University of Hawaii - West Oahu

2

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

$40,963 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,756 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the #2 spot on the list. Hawaii Pacific University is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 31 ’s public admin degrees to qualified students.

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

3

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

$42,927 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,501 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #3 spot on the list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s public admin degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Administration at University of Hawaii at Manoa

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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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