2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Electrical Engineering is the 31st most popular major in the country with 30,670 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $70,098 and had an average of $23,581 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 81 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,800 and $21,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 68 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,142 and $24,022 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great electrical engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the electrical engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$10,986 Average Net Price

$62,734 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this fairly large public school awarded 68 degrees to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. The estimated yearly cost for UH Manoa is $10,986 for hawaii bachelor’s degree ee students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at UH Manoa

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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