General Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #75 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Hawaii ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 75 bachelor's degrees in general education to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 general education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general education students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt general education students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general education students working on their bachelor's degree.
The education school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Hawaii.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Education in Hawaii
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general education.
It is hard to beat University of Hawaii at Manoa if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in general education. Located in the large city of Honolulu, UH Manoa is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the general education program at University of Hawaii at Manoa make $4,105 above the standard graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
University of Hawaii - West Oahu is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in general education. Located in the suburb of Kapolei, UH West Oahu is a public university with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the education program state that they receive average early career wages of $52,079.
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).
