2022 Best Value Archives Schools for an Associate

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Archives Schools for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Library & Archives Assisting is the 322nd most popular major in the country with 363 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, library and archives assisting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $14,576 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 165 library and archives assisting graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality library and archives assisting programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the library and archives assisting program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The archives school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Archives Schools for an Associate”.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Archives Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Archives Schools for an Associate.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Library & Archives Assisting

#1

Ivy Tech Community College

Indianapolis, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$6,919 Average Net Price

$17,412 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Archives Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Ivy Tech Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Ivy Tech Community College is located in Indianapolis, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 associates’s archives degrees to qualified students.

Ivy Tech Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Library & Archives Assisting Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Ivy Tech Community College is $6,919 for Associate Degree Archives students.

Full Ivy Tech Community College Library & Archives Assisting Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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