-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at University of Hawaii at Manoa fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.4% → 0.0%).
Hawaii · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
UH Mānoa
Honolulu, Hawaii. 14,306 undergraduate students. 220 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at UH Mānoa
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+20%
100%-time completion
100%-time completion at University of Hawaii at Manoa rose 20% between 2021 and 2024 (36.7% → 44.1%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Hawaii
Each tile compares this institution to the Hawaii median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$57,624+26% · 6→10y
Hawaii median $42,561$45,701
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry62.6%+17% · '97→'24
Hawaii median 41.4%$13,099+236% · '97→'20
At program completion14,306+23% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS74.8%+8% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time69.7%+21% · '01→'24
latest cohort$12,186+286% · '00→'24
out-of-state $34,218SECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
3.0%Median federal debt $13,099 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $57,624 (10y after entry).
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+449%
UH Mānoa · completion · 100% rose
8.0% → 44.1%
+23%
UH Mānoa · undergrad enrollment rose
12,216 → 15,029
+286%
UH Mānoa · in-state tuition rose
$3,157 → $12,186
+255%
UH Mānoa · out-of-state tuition rose
$9,637 → $34,218
+236%
UH Mānoa · median debt rose
$5,500 → $18,500
-100%
UH Mānoa · cohort default rate fell
4.4% → 0.0%
+38%
UH Mānoa · pell share rose
19.0% → 26.2%
+24%
UH Mānoa · earnings_median_10yr rose
$46,600 → $57,624
+26%
UH Mānoa · earnings_median_8yr rose
$41,800 → $52,625
+26%
UH Mānoa · earnings_median_6yr rose
$36,200 → $45,701
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
Medicine.$191,564Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$129,890Computer Engineering.$117,147Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$112,211Business Administration, Management and Operations.$102,996Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.$100,278Mechanical Engineering.$98,092Law.$91,552Civil Engineering.$86,161Accounting and Related Services.$84,550Computer and Information Sciences, General.$82,864Computer Science.$81,428Architecture.$77,792Educational/Instructional Media Design.$76,871Public Administration.$74,336Special Education and Teaching.$73,025Educational Administration and Supervision.$72,947Dental Support Services and Allied Professions.$71,785Management Information Systems and Services.$71,090Social Work.$69,304Human Resources Management and Services.$68,518Finance and Financial Management Services.$68,014City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning.$67,278Public Health.$66,571
Showing top 24 of 63 ranked programs.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
63 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES · CIP 10
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
EDUCATION · CIP 13
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$57,532Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$64,745Educational Administration and Supervision.$72,947Educational/Instructional Media Design.$76,871Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language.$32,425Special Education and Teaching.$61,945Special Education and Teaching.$73,025Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$65,358
ENGINEERING · CIP 14
FOREIGN LANGUAGES · CIP 16
FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES · CIP 19
LEGAL PROFESSIONS · CIP 22
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE · CIP 23
LIBERAL ARTS & GENERAL STUDIES · CIP 24
LIBRARY SCIENCE · CIP 25
BIOLOGICAL & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES · CIP 26
MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS · CIP 27
MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES · CIP 30
PARKS, RECREATION & FITNESS · CIP 31
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS · CIP 50
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
Marketing.$52,161Finance and Financial Management Services.$68,014Business Administration, Management and Operations.$102,996Business Administration, Management and Operations.$59,286Hospitality Administration/Management.$35,896Accounting and Related Services.$65,086Management Information Systems and Services.$71,090Human Resources Management and Services.$68,518International Business.$47,830Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations.$38,542Accounting and Related Services.$84,550Human Resources Management and Services.$65,515
HISTORY · CIP 54
ARCHITECTURE · CIP 04
AREA, ETHNIC & CULTURAL STUDIES · CIP 05
COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM · CIP 09
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at UH Mānoa
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
$59,597
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 24
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $13,381
- HS-only baseline · HI
- $39,200
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 42
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Hawaii
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“UH Mānoa graduates earn $X” — not “UH Mānoa makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending UH Mānoa caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.