UH Strategic Directions Measures

  • Definition: Based on Common Data set survey methodology.
    Includes:
    •   First-time, undergraduate students at the institution
    •   Only loans made to student while enrolled at the institution
  • Excludes:
    •   Transfer-in students
    •   Money borrowed at other institutions
    •   Parent PLUS loans
    •   Pharmacy BA degrees since Pharmacy BA students are planning to be graduate degree seekers
  • Based on first degree earned
  • Percent of Non-Transfer Graduates with Debt = # of Non-Transfer Graduates with debt / # of Total Non-Transfer Graduates

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Percent of Non-Transfer Graduates with Debt
Academic Year

  Campus
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
  UH Mānoa 40.0% 41.3% 43.0% 46.1% 46.9% 47.4% 44.0%
  UH Hilo 47.9% 52.5% 62.9% 58.1% 58.5% 52.9% 57.5%
  UH West Oʻahu 0.0% 30.0% 33.3% 44.8% 45.2% 35.4% 46.1%
    Hawaiʻi CC 16.7% 19.9% 21.8% 22.1% 18.9% 16.1% 16.9%
    Honolulu CC 7.8% 9.0% 14.2% 16.2% 19.4% 17.8% 18.7%
    Kapiʻolani CC 9.4% 10.5% 12.0% 10.1% 14.4% 12.5% 12.9%
    Kauaʻi CC 8.6% 21.4% 24.8% 28.5% 22.2% 36.0% 15.3%
    Leeward CC 4.5% 8.8% 9.3% 12.3% 9.5% 10.4% 9.9%
    Maui College 31.5% 35.8% 40.8% 41.5% 36.1% 39.4% 26.4%
    Windward CC 21.5% 27.8% 37.5% 35.9% 39.0% 31.8% 30.8%

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