2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist in the Plains States Region

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School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist is the 717th most popular major in the country with 370 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 32 school librarian/school library media specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 school librarian/school library media specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in school librarian/school library media specialist. That schools that top this list have a program in school librarian/school library media specialist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist in the Plains States Region

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Lindenwood University
Saint Charles, Missouri

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lindenwood University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lindenwood University is a medium-sized school located in Saint Charles, Missouri that handed out 9 masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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2

Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Cloud State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region. Saint Cloud, Minnesota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Mankato, Minnesota, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aparajita Datta.