Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has eight business and finance schools within its city limits. University of Hawaii at Manoa, the highest ranked school in the city with a business and finance program, has a total student population of 20,435. It is the 282nd highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Hawaii. To learn more about business and finance programs in Honolulu, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of business and finance professors at University of Hawaii at Manoa such as Frank Abou-Sayf, Jing Ai, Naveen Amblee, Linda Bangert Harris, Charles Barclay, and David Bess.
Business and Finance students from Honolulu schools who go on to become business and finance professionals, event planners, web developers, SEOs, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 6,063,670 people working as business and financial operations employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,900. Also, Wholesale and retail buyers make on average $55,480 per year and there are about 116,900 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 800 employed wholesale and retail buyers earning an average salary of $40,700. Business and financial operations employees in this area earn $59,300/yr and there are 20,880 employed.
Honolulu lies in Honolulu county, which is one of the 4 counties in Hawaii. Overall, the Honolulu area has 430,700 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $21/hr average worker wage, and a $43,760 average annual salary. Thus, about 48 out of every 1000 jobs in Honolulu are held by business and financial operations employees, and 2/1000 are held by wholesale and retail buyers.
Of the 8 business and finance schools in Honolulu, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Hawaii Campus comes out as the most expensive ($25,566/yr) for business and finance students, with Kapiolani Community College as the lowest, reported at only $3,425/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Honolulu |
| Kaneohe | HI | - | 1 | 8.23652 | 2 | 6.2 miles |
| Pearl City | HI | - | 2 | 22.3389 | 25 | 12.4 miles |