2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Hospitality for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
109
Degrees Awarded
$37,079
Avg Salary

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Hospitality for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Hospitality Management is the 66th most popular major in the country with 17,689 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, hospitality management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,874 and had an average of $22,906 in loans still to pay off.
Across Hawaii, there were 371 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,626 and $17,526 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 109 hospitality management graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,980 and $16,727 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent hospitality management programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the hospitality management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Hospitality for an Associate
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Hospitality for an Associate”.
Top 1 Best Hospitality Management Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in Hawaii
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kapiolani Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Hospitality for an Associate list. Kapiolani Community College is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 83 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Kapiolani CC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Hospitality Management Associate Degree Schools in Hawaii” list.According to our most recent data, Kapiolani Community College supports 6,369 students, and 415 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 360 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,923. On top of their other funding sources, 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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