2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 56,762 social work students received their degree, making the major the 8th most popular in the country.

Across Hawaii, there were 190 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 71 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,142 and $24,022 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in social work. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality social work programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the social work program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$15,030 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. It costs about $15,030 for Hawaii Bachelor’s Degree Social Work students per year to attend UH Manoa.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Social Work at University of Hawaii at Manoa

#2

Hawaii Pacific University

Honolulu, Hawaii

#2 in overall quality

$27,508 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hawaii Pacific University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Social Work Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii. Hawaii Pacific University is a small school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 8 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2019-2020.

Hawaii Pacific University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. It costs about $27,508 for hawaii bachelor’s degree social work students per year to attend Hawaii Pacific University.

Read more about Social Work at Hawaii Pacific University

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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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