2023 Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Hawaii
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Ranked Colleges
134
Degrees Awarded
$30,814
Avg Salary
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Social Sciences for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Social Sciences is the 54th most popular major in the country with 18,997 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,991 and had an average of $24,438 in loans still to pay off.
Across Hawaii, there were 134 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,814 and $22,064 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 134 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,385 and $28,544 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general social sciences programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the general social sciences program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Social Sciences for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Social Sciences for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Social Sciences for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Hawaii
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii - West Oahu. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Hawaii for Social Sciences for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Kapolei, Hawaii, and it awarded 134 bachelors’s social sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
UH West Oahu also made our “Best General Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, UH West Oahu supports 3,168 students, and 440 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 307 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $5,652. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Hawaii - West Oahu Veteran Student Life 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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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