2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Hawaii

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Hawaii” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 29,389 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general education graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $48,787 and had an average of $30,979 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 50 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,320 and $20,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,058 and $24,057 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general education. That schools that top this list have a program in general education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Hawaii”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii - West Oahu
Kapolei, Hawaii

#8 overall quality in Hawaii

$46,264 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii - West Oahu. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Hawaii list. UH West Oahu is a public institution located in Kapolei, Hawaii. The school has a small population, and it awarded 32 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Hawaii - West Oahu General Education Report

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #2 spot on the list. UH Manoa is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s education degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Education at UH Manoa

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.

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