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2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Hawaii

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

3 Schools Ranked
$27,404 Avg Tuition & Fees*

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for nursing students. 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.

The Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Hawaii ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Hawaii to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for nursing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

Top Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Hawaii

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8 Total Awards
$27,062 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Hawaii at Hilo the best value school in Hawaii for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. UH Hilo is located in Hilo, Hawaii and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UH Hilo are $27,062 per year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UH Hilo does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 33% took at least some of their classes online.

UH Hilo also took the #3 spot in our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii rankings.

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#2

University of Hawaii at Manoa

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

Out of the 3 schools in Hawaii that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the # 2 spot on the list. This fairly large public school is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, and it awarded 4 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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

UH Manoa does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 34% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii list.

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#3

Hawaii Pacific University

Honolulu, Hawaii
4 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 # 3 spot on the list. Hawaii Pacific University is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Hawaii Pacific University are $20,600 per year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Hawaii Pacific University does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 47% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Hawaii Pacific University did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Hawaii list.

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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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