2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 98,583 people earned their degree in public administration and social service, making the major the 14th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, public administration and social service graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $40,520 and had an average of $27,642 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 399 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,762 and $31,842 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 247 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in public administration and social service. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public administration and social service.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii

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

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Hawaii

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University of Hawaii - West Oahu
Kapolei, Hawaii

#8 overall quality in Hawaii

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 for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii. This small school is located in Kapolei, Hawaii, and it awarded 139 bachelors’s public administration and social service 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 & Social Service at University of Hawaii - West Oahu

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Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Laie, Hawaii

#2 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Hawaii. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii. Located in Laie, Hawaii, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 42 degrees to qualified bachelors’s public administration and social service students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Public Administration & Social Service at BYU - H

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Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the #3 spot on the list. Hawaii Pacific University is a small school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 16 bachelors’s public administration and social service degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Public Administration & Social Service at Hawaii Pacific University

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii. UH Manoa is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 50 bachelors’s 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%.

Read full report on Public Administration & Social Service at UH Manoa

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service

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.

Credits

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