Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has four design schools within its city limits. University of Hawaii at Manoa, the highest ranked school in the city with a design 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 design programs in Honolulu, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of design professors at University of Hawaii at Manoa such as Kimberly Chai, Diane Chung, Marie Abby Cristi, Carol D'Angelo, Carol Anne Dickson, and Scott Groeniger.
Design students from Honolulu schools who go on to become interior designers, architecture designers, designers, graphic designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 46,010 people working as interior designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $51,990. Also, Floral designers make on average $24,940 per year and there are about 51,470 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 120 employed floral designers earning an average salary of $28,270. Interior designers in this area earn $53,070/yr and there are 100 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 interior designers, and 0/1000 are held by floral designers.
Of the 4 design 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 design students, with University of Hawaii at Manoa as the lowest, reported at only $10,275/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 |