Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has four finance schools within its city limits. University of Hawaii at Manoa, the highest ranked school in the city with a 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 finance programs in Honolulu, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of finance professors at University of Hawaii at Manoa such as Jing Ai, Rosita Chang, Steven Dawson, Wei Huang, David Hunter, and Eric Mais.
Finance students from Honolulu schools who go on to become financial managers, finance analysts, financial planners, corporate finance consultants, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 495,180 people working as financial managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $113,730. Also, Budget analysts make on average $69,240 per year and there are about 60,970 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 350 employed budget analysts earning an average salary of $68,630. Financial managers in this area earn $89,260/yr and there are 1,590 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 4 out of every 1000 jobs in Honolulu are held by financial managers, and 1/1000 are held by budget analysts.
Of the 4 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 finance 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 |