Hawaii colleges lagging in online learning, US News rankings show


Hawaii’s colleges are notably missing from the U.S. News and World Report’s recent rankings of online programs, suggesting that the Aloha State is lagging in one of the fastest-growing areas of education, Honolulu Civil Beat reports.

The only local university to get a spot on the list is Chaminade University, whose online graduate education program received such a low overall score that it didn’t even get a numerical ranking.

The US News rankings evaluate programs in six categories, including general undergraduate, graduate business and graduate nursing programs.

The University of Hawaii offers an array of distance-learning degrees, while Hawaii Pacific University offers several, including an online master of business administration.

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