2023 Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Hawaii

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 “Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Hawaii” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Natural Resource Management is the 178th most popular major in the country with 2,933 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,190 and had an average of $25,062 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 52 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,178 and $23,613 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Hawaii” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural resource management. To top this list, a school must have a successful natural resource management program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Hawaii

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Hawaii”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

$42,927 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,501 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Hawaii. University of Hawaii at Manoa is a fairly large school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 51 ’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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 Natural Resource Management at University of Hawaii at Manoa

2

University of Hawaii Maui College
Kahului, Hawaii

#10 overall quality in Hawaii

$47,986 Average Early-Career Earnings

$14,929 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii Maui College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Resource Management Major in Hawaii. University of Hawaii Maui College is a small school located in Kahului, Hawaii that handed out 1 ’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UH Maui College Natural Resource Management Report

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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).
• 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell.