2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Hawaii

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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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 136 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,867 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 2 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.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service 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 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s public administration and social service degrees to 40 students 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%.

Read more about Public Administration & Social Service at Hawaii Pacific University

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Administration & Social Service Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #2 spot on the list. UH Manoa is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 96 masters’s public administration and social service degrees to qualified students.

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 full report on Public Administration & Social Service 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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