2024 Best Library & Information Science Schools in California
3Colleges in California
724Library Science Degrees Awarded
$39,173Avg Early-Career Salary
Library & Information Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #121 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for library & information science students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 724 degrees in library & information science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Library & Information Science School
Your choice of library & information science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Library & Information Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Library & Information Science Rankings by Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Library & Information Science Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Library & Information Science in California
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the library science degree levels they offer.
San Jose State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in library & information science. San Jose State is a very large public university located in the large city of San Jose. This university ranks 23rd out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 648 library & information science students who graduated with this degree at San Jose State in the most recent data year. Those library & information science students who get their degree from San Jose State University earn $9,566 more than the average library science student.
University of Southern California is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in library & information science. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were about 36 library & information science students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available. Library & Information Science degree recipients from University of Southern California receive an earnings boost of approximately $3,441 above the typical earnings of library & information science graduates.
The University of Arizona Global Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in library & information science. UAGC is a very large private for-profit university located in the city of San Diego. This university ranks 50th out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 39 library & information science students who graduated with this degree at UAGC in the most recent data year. After graduation, library science degree recipients typically earn around $26,165 in the first five years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of library & information science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Library & Information Science School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
