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2023 Best Value Basic Certificate Schools in Hawaii

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

3 Schools Ranked
$8,365 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Basic Certificate Schools in Hawaii to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Hawaii to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Basic Certificate Schools in Hawaii

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Kapiolani Community College

Honolulu, Hawaii
39 Total Awards
$8,420 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Kapiolani Community College the best value school in Hawaii for students working on their basic certificate. Located in Honolulu, Hawaii, the medium-sized public school awarded 39 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Kapiolani CC are $8,420 per year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Kapiolani CC does offer online classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 90% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Kapiolani CC also took the #2 spot in our Best Basic Certificate Schools in Hawaii rankings.

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#2

Honolulu Community College

Honolulu, Hawaii
143 Total Awards
$8,310 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Honolulu Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Basic Certificate Schools in Hawaii list. Honolulu CC is a public institution located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The school has a small population, and it awarded 143 basic certificates in 2020-2021.

Honolulu CC undergraduate students pay an average of $8,310 in tuition and fees each year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Honolulu CC does offer online classes for certain majors. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 92% took at least some of their classes online.

Honolulu CC also took the #3 spot in our Best Basic Certificate Schools in Hawaii rankings.

Full Honolulu Community College Report

#3

University of Phoenix - Hawaii

Honolulu, Hawaii
6 Total Awards
$9,552 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Phoenix - Hawaii. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Basic Certificate Schools in Hawaii list. University of Phoenix - Hawaii is a very small private for-profit school located in Honolulu, Hawaii that handed out 6 basic certificates in 2020-2021.

UOPX - Hawaii undergraduate students pay an average of $9,552 in tuition and fees each year.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at UOPX - Hawaii. In fact, around 38% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

UOPX - Hawaii not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Basic Certificate 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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