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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 6,077 people earned their degree in library & information science, making the major the 134th most popular in the United States.
Across Tennessee, there were 171 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 170 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,444 and $43,245 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in library & information science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in library & information science.
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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 Tennessee”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 127 masters’s library and information science degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trevecca Nazarene University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Tennessee list. TNU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 18 masters’s library and information science degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at Trevecca Nazarene University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Middle Tennessee State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Tennessee list. Middle Tennessee State University is a large school located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee that handed out 25 masters’s library and information science degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *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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