2024 Best Social Work Master's Degree Schools in Hawaii

Social Work is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #2 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 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.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social work related body.

Our complete 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.

More Ways to Rank Social Work Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Social Work Master's Degree Schools in Hawaii list to help you make the college 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.

Top Hawaii Schools for a Master's in Social Work

1

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

80 Annual Graduates

University of Hawaii at Manoa is a wonderful option for students interested in a master's degree in social work. Located in the city of Honolulu, UH Manoa is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in social work from University of Hawaii at Manoa

2

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, HI

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Hawaii Pacific University is a wonderful choice for individuals pursuing a master's degree in social work. Hawaii Pacific University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Honolulu.More information about a master’s in social work from Hawaii Pacific University

Best Social Work Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Social Work Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	675	3,073
Washington	402	368
Oregon	291	304
Nevada	126	235
Alaska	65	27

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Rankings in Majors Related to Social Work

Social Work is one of 3 different types of Social Work programs to choose from.

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Army Medicine. More about our data sources and methodologies.