2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 5,696 people earned their degree in library and information science, making the major the 134th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,307 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in library and information science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their library and information science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree library and information science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Southeast Region

1

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Miss is a fairly large school located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi that handed out 30 bachelors’s library and information science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at Southern Miss

2

Emory and Henry College
Emory, Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory and Henry College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Emory, Virginia, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s library and information science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at Emory & Henry College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science

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.

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