You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Southeast Region. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s library and information science degrees to 121 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.