Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has six communications schools within its city limits. University of Hawaii at Manoa, the highest ranked school in the city with a communications 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 communications programs in Honolulu, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of communications professors at University of Hawaii at Manoa such as Jeffrey Ady, Alex Bergo, Tom Brislin, Clifford Clarke, David Courson, and Dineh Davis.
Communications students from Honolulu schools who go on to become communication disorder specialists, speech therapists, speech language pathologists, teacher of the speech and hearing handicappeds, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 25,090 people working as communications teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,190. Also, Rehabilitation counselors make on average $34,710 per year and there are about 112,690 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 220 employed rehabilitation counselors earning an average salary of $38,540. Communications teachers in this area earn $75,300/yr and there are 120 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 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Honolulu are held by communications teachers, and 1/1000 are held by rehabilitation counselors.
Of the 6 communications schools in Honolulu, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Chaminade University of Honolulu comes out as the most expensive ($17,911/yr) for communications 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 |