2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Library and Information Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Library & Information Science is the 141st most popular major in the country with 5,191 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,090 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent library and information science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the library and information science program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Library and Information Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Library and Information Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Library and Information Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Southeast Region

#1

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$30,160 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Library and Information Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. UofSC is a large school located in Columbia, South Carolina that handed out 1 doctorate’s library and information science degrees in 2019-2020.

UofSC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Library & Information Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UofSC are $30,160.

Read more about Library & Information Science at University of South Carolina - Columbia

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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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