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2022 Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $30-$48k

2 Ranked Colleges
140 Degrees Awarded
$27,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master's in Hawaii For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Public Administration & Social Service is the 14th most popular major in the country with 97,666 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public administration and social service graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,142 and had an average of $32,304 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 367 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,463 and $30,356 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 140 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,195 and $40,792 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in public administration and social service. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public administration and social service programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the public administration and social service program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii master’s degree public administration & social service students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service (Income $30-$48k) in Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $30-$48k. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s public administration and social service degrees to 105 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UH Manoa, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Public Administration & Social Service Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Hawaii at Manoa are $34,550.

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#2

Hawaii Pacific University

Honolulu, Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hawaii Pacific University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $30-$48k list. This small school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 35 masters’s public administration and social service degrees in 2019-2020.

Hawaii Pacific University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Public Administration & Social Service Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Hawaii Pacific University are $20,600, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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%.

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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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