2025 Best Health & Physical Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Hawaii

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in health & physical education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #9 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Health & Physical Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Hawaii ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 166 bachelor's degrees in health & physical education during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to health & physical education students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of health & physical education students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt health & physical 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 health & physical education related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for health & physical education students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Health & Physical Education Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Health & Physical Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Hawaii list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Health & Physical Education in Hawaii

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for health & physical education students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Hawaii Schools for a Bachelor's in Phys Ed

1

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI

101 Annual Graduates

$27,626 Median Starting Salary

$43,007 Median Student Debt

University of Hawaii at Manoa is a great option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in health & physical education. UH Manoa is a fairly large public university located in the city of Honolulu.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the phys ed program earn an average of $27,626 in the first couple years of working.

More information about a bachelor’s in health & physical education from University of Hawaii at Manoa

2

University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, HI

33 Annual Graduates

$24,815 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in health & physical education needs to take a look at University of Hawaii at Hilo. Located in the remote town of Hilo, UH Hilo is a public university with a small student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the phys ed program state that they receive average early career wages of $24,815.

More information about a bachelor’s in health & physical education from University of Hawaii at Hilo

Best Health & Physical Education Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Health & Physical Education Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	262	5,817
Washington	226	428
Oregon	185	499
Nevada	129	253
Alaska	75	19

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Rankings in Majors Related to Phys Ed

Health & Physical Education is one of 4 different types of Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies programs to choose from.

Phys Ed Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Exercise Science and Kinesiology	128
Sports Kinesiology and Physical Education/Fitness General	38

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.