Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has two event management schools within a 3000-mile radius of its city center. University of Idaho, the highest ranked school in this group with an event management program, has a total student population of 11,957. It is the 243rd highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Idaho. To learn more about event management programs in Honolulu, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of event management professors at University of Idaho such as Carolyn Birmingham, and Jan Rauk.
Event Management students from Honolulu schools who go on to become event managers, event planners, management specialists, organizational management specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 6,116,380 people working as management employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $102,900. Also, Emergency management specialists make on average $56,900 per year and there are about 13,060 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 70 employed emergency management specialists earning an average salary of $53,590. Management employees in this area earn $90,920/yr and there are 21,520 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 50 out of every 1000 jobs in Honolulu are held by management employees, and 0/1000 are held by emergency management specialists.
Of the 2 event management schools with a 3000-mile radius of Honolulu, both of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Idaho comes out as the most expensive ($13,222/yr) for event management students, with California State Polytechnic University-Pomona as the lowest, reported at only $10,756/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 |