Kauai Community College Trade Programs

Located in Lihue, Hawaii, Kauai Community College is a public institution. Students who love country life may enjoy the rural location of Kauai CC.

Where Is Kauai Community College?

Contact details for Kauai CC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3-1901 Kaumualii Highway, Lihue, HI 96766-9500
Phone:	808-245-8311
Website:	www.kauai.hawaii.edu

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Can I Afford Kauai CC?

In a recent term, part-time Kauai CC students paid $131 per credit hour if they lived in-state. Out-of-state students paid $345 per credit hour. The costs for full-time students are given in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$3,144	$8,280
Fees	$108	$108
Books and Supplies	$1,350	$1,350

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Kauai CC, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $6,500 a year. That adds up to $26,000 over four years for those students.

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Kauai Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,461 undergraduate students at Kauai CC, with 335 being full-time and 1,126 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 335 full-time undergraduates at Kauai CC, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Kauai Community College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	94
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	61
White	45
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	131

Over 3 countries are represented at Kauai CC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Japan, Australia, and Canada.

Online Learning at Kauai Community College

In 2022-2023, 790 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Kauai CC has changed over the last few years.

Kauai Community College Trade School Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	Undergraduate Certificate	TOTAL
High Performance & Custom Engine Technician/Mechanic	15	1	25	41
General Cooking & Related Culinary Arts	17	6	7	30
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training	0	0	19	19
Electrical, Electronic & Communications Engineering Technology	5	4	0	9
Electrician	0	2	6	8
Carpentry/Carpenter	0	0	1	1
Medical/Clinical Assistant	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	37	13	58	108

Kauai Community College Trades

In a recent academic period, Kauai Community College awarded 305 undergraduate degrees. The table below shows the number of awards by award type for each trade program. Basic certificates are awards that are completed in less than a year, and undergraduate certificates are those awards that take between one and four years.

Major	Basic Certificates	Undergrad Certificates	Associate’s	Bachelor’s
Carpentry	0	1	0	0
Culinary Arts	17	7	6	0
Electrical & Power Transmission Installers	0	6	2	0
Electronics Engineering Technology	5	0	4	0
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants	0	19	0	0
Vehicle Maintenance & Repair	15	25	1	0
Total	111	155	39	0

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.