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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music in Hawaii (With Aid)

2 Ranked Colleges
35 Degrees Awarded
$14,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Music Schools for a Bachelor's in Hawaii For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

Music is the 40th most popular major in the country with 27,047 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, music graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,639 and had an average of $28,653 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 60 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,142 and $24,022 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality music programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the music program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 “Best Value Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music in Hawaii (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, this fairly large public school handed out 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music students in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. It costs about $15,030 for hawaii bachelor’s degree music students with aid per year to attend University of Hawaii at 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%.

Read more about Music at University of Hawaii at Manoa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Hawaii at Hilo. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in Hawaii For Those Getting Aid list. Hilo, Hawaii is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s music degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

UH Hilo not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” list. It costs about $13,885 for hawaii bachelor’s degree music students with aid per year to attend University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Full University of Hawaii at Hilo Music Report

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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