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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Minnesota” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Library & Information Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 6,077 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Minnesota, there were 48 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,378 and $40,982 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in library & information science.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Minnesota” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Minnesota”.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, St Catherine University landed the #1 spot on the list. St Catherine University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It awarded 48 masters’s library and information science degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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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
- *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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