Honolulu, HI (population: 375,134) has two multimedia schools within its city limits. Heald College-Honolulu, the highest ranked school in the city with a multimedia program, has a total student population of 1,376. It is the 3430th highest ranked school in the USA and the 9th highest in the state of Hawaii (#1 is University of Hawaii at Manoa).
Multimedia students from Honolulu schools who go on to become multimedia designers, audio engineers, graphic designers, video engineers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 28,800 people working as multimedia artists and animators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $62,810. Also, Graphic designers make on average $47,820 per year and there are about 200,870 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Honolulu area alone, there are 420 employed graphic designers earning an average salary of $49,760. Multimedia artists and animators in this area earn $58,050/yr and there are ** 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 ** out of every 1000 jobs in Honolulu are held by multimedia artists and animators, and 1/1000 are held by graphic designers.
Of the 2 multimedia schools in Honolulu, none have 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 multimedia students, with Heald College-Honolulu as the lowest, reported at only $14,988/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 |