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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Geography is the 144th most popular major in the country with 5,476 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Hawaii, there were 54 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,142 and $24,022 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geography. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent geography programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the geography program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography (Income $0-$30k) in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$10,986 Average Net Price

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 Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k. UH Manoa is a fairly large school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 10 bachelors’s geography degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UH Manoa, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Geography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” ranking. It costs about $10,986 for Hawaii Bachelor’s Degree Geography students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UH Manoa.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UH Manoa Geography Report

#2

University of Hawaii at Hilo

Hilo, Hawaii

#2 in overall quality

$12,045 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Hilo landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Hilo, Hawaii, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s geography degrees in 2019-2020.

UH Hilo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Geography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. The estimated yearly cost for UH Hilo is $12,045 for Hawaii Bachelor’s Degree Geography students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full UH Hilo Geography 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

• *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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