Pacific Rim
Christian University
Private College in Honolulu, HI. Six-year graduation rate 45%. Median 10-year earnings $40,523.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $40,523, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. Six-year completion sits at 46%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 46% finish inside six years. Retention of 78% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 113 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $23,151 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $22,972 at $0–30k, $23,292 at $75–110k. Grant aid reaches 83% of students at an average of $6,749. Federal borrowing reaches 46% of students.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 15 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $22,972 |
| $30–48k | $23,614 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | $23,292 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 52 of these 113 students, totalling $323,744 — an average of $6,226 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Honolulu County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)