Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has seven medicine and health schools within its city limits. University of Hawaii at Manoa, the highest ranked school in the city with a medicine and health 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 medicine and health programs in Honolulu, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of medicine and health professors at University of Hawaii at Manoa such as Richard Arakaki, Andrea Fleig, Sheri Gon, George Read, and Patricia Taylor.
Medicine and Health students from Honolulu schools who go on to become medicine and health professionals, office administrators, massage therapists, trainers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 271,710 people working as medical and health services managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,970. Also, Registered nurses make on average $66,530 per year and there are about 2,583,770 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 6,620 employed registered nurses earning an average salary of $82,150. Medical and health services managers in this area earn $97,300/yr and there are 820 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 2 out of every 1000 jobs in Honolulu are held by medical and health services managers, and 15/1000 are held by registered nurses.
Of the 7 medicine and health 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 medicine and health 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 |