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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Library & Information Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 5,696 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 269 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 255 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Clarion University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. Clarion, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library and information science degrees to 159 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #2 spot on the list. Drexel is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a large population, and it awarded 54 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at Drexel University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania landed the #3 spot on the list. Kutztown, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library and information science degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
Full Kutztown University Library & Information Science Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library and information science degrees to 33 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at Pitt
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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
- *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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