2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in Hawaii

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Early Childhood Education is the 34th most popular major in the country with 31,937 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Hawaii, there were 91 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 early childhood education graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,829 and $40,785 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in early childhood education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their early childhood education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in Hawaii

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood Education in Hawaii

1

Chaminade University of Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii

#4 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chaminade University of Honolulu. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in Hawaii list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s child development students in 2021-2022.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Chaminade University of Honolulu Early Childhood Education Report

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Child development Major in Hawaii list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s child development students in 2021-2022.

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 Early Childhood 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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