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2023 Best Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Hawaii

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

3 Schools Ranked
$27,575 Avg Tuition & Fees*

With all the teaching programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Hawaii to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Hawaii to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Hawaii

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii
221 Total Awards
$34,550 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Hawaii at Manoa the best value school in Hawaii for teaching students working on their master’s degree. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, the fairly large public school awarded 221 diplomas to qualifed master’s degree students in 2020-2021.

UH Manoa graduate students pay an average of $34,550 in tuition and fees each year.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at UH Manoa. During the 2019-2020 year, about 34% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

UH Manoa did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii list.

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#2

Hawaii Pacific University

Honolulu, Hawaii
42 Total Awards
$20,600 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Hawaii that were part of this year’s value ranking, Hawaii Pacific University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 42 diplomas to qualifed master’s degree students in 2020-2021.

Hawaii Pacific University graduate students pay an average of $20,600 in tuition and fees each year.

One thing to take note of is that Hawaii Pacific University does offer online graduate classes in some areas. In 2019-2020 about 47% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Hawaii Pacific University also made our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii list, coming in at #3.

Full Hawaii Pacific University Report

90 Total Awards
$27,720 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Chaminade University of Honolulu. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out master’s degrees to 90 students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Chaminade University of Honolulu are $27,720 per year.

One thing to take note of is that Chaminade University of Honolulu does offer online graduate classes in some areas. During the 2019-2020 year, about 51% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Chaminade University of Honolulu is ranked #1 for overall quality in Hawaii.

Full Chaminade University of Honolulu Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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