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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 “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Library & Information Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 5,696 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across District of Columbia, there were 36 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 36 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.
To top this list, a school must have a successful library and information science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia master’s degree library and information science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s. This medium-sized school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 36 masters’s library and information science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Library & Information Science at Catholic University of America
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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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