2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist in Minnesota

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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 Minnesota, there were 14 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 10 school librarian/school library media specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,734 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in Minnesota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in school librarian/school library media specialist. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their school librarian/school library media specialist program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota master’s degree school librarian/school library media specialist students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist in Minnesota

1

Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Cloud State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Cloud State University is a fairly large school located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota that handed out 7 masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees 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

#17 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in Minnesota list. Mankato, 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 3 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 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.