7
Colleges in the Southwest Region
796
Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in
library & information science, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #37 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Library & Information Science Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 796 master's degrees in library & information science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Your choice of library & information science for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality library and information science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to library & information science students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other library & information science students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized library & information science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for library & information science students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Library & Information Science Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.