2023 Best Accounting Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Hawaii
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With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Accounting for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Accounting is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 8th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 99,265 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,712 and had an average of $26,539 in loans still to pay off.
Across Hawaii, there were 341 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,718 and $34,105 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 61 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,980 and $16,727 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality accounting programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the accounting program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Accounting for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Accounting for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Accounting for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Accounting Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Hawaii
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Accounting for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Kapiolani Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 14 associates’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Kapiolani CC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting Associate Degree Schools in Hawaii” ranking.Among the 6,369 students enrolled at Kapiolani Community College, 415 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 360 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,923. In addition to receiving other benefits, 22 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Kapiolani CC]](/colleges/kapiolani-community-college/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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