2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Archives/Archival Administration

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Archives/Archival Administration Schools for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Archives/Archival Administration is the 1118th most popular major in the country with 176 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 117 archives/archival administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Archives/Archival Administration Schools for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in archives/archival administration. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent archives/archival administration programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the archives/archival administration program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Archives/Archival Administration Schools for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Archives/Archival Administration Schools for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Archives/Archival Administration Schools for a Master’s.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Archives/Archival Administration

#1

Simmons University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$21,698 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Archives/Archival Administration Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s archives/archival administration degrees to 101 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Simmons, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Archives/Archival Administration Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Simmons are $21,698.

Read more about Archives/Archival Administration at Simmons

#2

San Jose State University

San Jose, California

#2 in overall quality

$18,790 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Jose State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Archives/Archival Administration Schools for a Master’s. San Jose State is a large public school situated in San Jose, California. It awarded 16 masters’s archives/archival administration degrees in 2019-2020.

San Jose State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Archives/Archival Administration Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at San Jose State University are $18,790, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Archives/Archival Administration at San Jose State University

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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