{"id":101479,"date":"2019-08-20T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T01:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=101479"},"modified":"2019-08-21T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T22:56:31","slug":"community-colleges-wallethub-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/20\/community-colleges-wallethub-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges among top national systems"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Colleges<\/a> ranked 13th among the nation’s best community college systems, according to the WalletHub personal finance website’s 2019 Best & Worst Community-College System<\/a>s.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> CC<\/abbr>’s position in the Top 25 put it well above most programs across the country. Eight of the states did not even rank. A state had to have at least two community colleges to be considered.<\/p>\n

WalletHub based its ranking on an analysis of data at the individual-school level across a sample of 710 institutions. The school evaluations were based on three key dimensions: cost & financing, education outcomes and career outcomes. Information was collected from the National Center for Education Statistics, CNBC<\/abbr>, U.S. Department of Education, Council for Community & Economic Research, and College Measures.<\/p>\n

“The UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges are very proud to be an open-door, affordable and student-focused system providing all qualified people in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> with high quality educational and workforce training opportunities,” said Erika Lacro<\/strong>, interim vice president for community colleges. “The seven colleges have distinct missions and focus areas, while still managing to support community and industry needs.”<\/p>\n

This is not the first time the UH<\/abbr> Community Colleges system was nationally recognized. It was among the most affordable two-year public higher education institutions<\/a> in the country, according to the 2016 College Affordability Diagnosis<\/em> by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They were collectively ranked as the thirteenth best in the country by the WalletHub personal finance website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,631,71,60,947],"class_list":["post-101479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-ranking","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101479"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101713,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101479\/revisions\/101713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}