2022 Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 ranking identifies schools with high-quality public administration and social service programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public administration and social service 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 Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$34,550 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #1 spot on the list. UH Manoa is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 105 masters’s public administration and social service degrees to qualified students.

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. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Hawaii at Manoa are $34,550, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Public Administration & Social Service at UH 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

• *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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