Social Work is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #3 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Social Work Master's Degree Schools in Hawaii ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 95 master's degrees in social work during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on social work students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of social work students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for social work to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social work related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for social work students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Social Work Master's Degree Schools in Hawaii ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Social Work in Hawaii
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in social work.
It's difficult to beat University of Hawaii at Manoa if you wish to pursue a master's degree in social work. Located in the city of Honolulu, UH Manoa is a public university with a large student population.
Master's recipients from the social work major at University of Hawaii at Manoa earn $3,650 above the average college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
It's difficult to beat Hawaii Pacific University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in social work. Hawaii Pacific University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Honolulu.
After graduating, social work master's recipients usually earn an average of $42,902 in their early careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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