2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Design & Applied Arts in Hawaii

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Design & Applied Arts is the 36th most popular major in the country with 36,301 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, design and applied arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,426 and had an average of $25,481 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 19 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,980 and $16,727 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Design Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in design and applied arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their design and applied arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Design Major in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Design Major in Hawaii”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Design & Applied Arts in Hawaii

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Honolulu Community College
Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Design Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, Honolulu Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 5 associates’s design degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Design & Applied Arts at Honolulu Community College

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Chaminade University of Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii

#4 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Chaminade University of Honolulu. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Design Major in Hawaii. Chaminade University of Honolulu is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 associates’s design degrees to qualified students.

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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Design & Applied Arts in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Design & Applied Arts

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.