2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Hawaii

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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. 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 “Most Well Attended Public Admin Major in Hawaii for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in public administration. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular public administration programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Public Admin Major in Hawaii for a Master’s

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

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

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Public Admin Major in Hawaii for a Master’s list. Hawaii Pacific University is a small school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 25 masters’s public admin degrees 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

2

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 #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Public Admin Major in Hawaii for a Master’s list. This fairly large school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and 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

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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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