Education at University of Hawaii at Manoa

If you plan to study education, take a look at what University of Hawaii at Manoa has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UH Manoa is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and has a total student population of 18,025. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 221 students received their master's degree in education.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Education section at the bottom of this page.

UH Manoa Education Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Education
• Doctorate Degree in Education

Online Classes Are Available at UH Manoa

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

UH Manoa does offer online education options in education for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

UH Manoa Education Rankings

There were 35 students who received their doctoral degrees in education, making the school the #108 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Education Student Demographics at UH Manoa

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the education majors at University of Hawaii at Manoa.

UH Manoa Education Master’s Program

The education program at UH Manoa awarded 221 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 22% of these degrees went to men with the other 78% going to women.

In the education master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 75% of degree recipients. That is 45% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Hawaii at Manoa with a master's in education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	72
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	18
White	47
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	74

Concentrations Within Education

The following education concentations are available at University of Hawaii at Manoa. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Hawaii at Manoa. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Curriculum & Instruction	66
Teacher Education Grade Specific	56
Educational Administration	41
Instructional Media Design	25
Special Education	25
Teaching English or French	20
Education Philosophy	13
General Education	10

Related Majors

• Family, Consumer & Human Sciences
• History
• Library Science
• Communication & Journalism
• Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies

Careers That Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for HI, the home state for University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Occupation	Jobs in HI	Average Salary in HI
Elementary School Teachers	6,040	$61,240
Teacher Assistants	5,890	$30,230
High School Teachers	4,310	$60,810
Middle School Teachers	1,960	$60,900
Kindergarten or Elementary School Special Education Teachers	1,770	$54,000

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By No machine-readable author provided. under License

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