2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the New England Region

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 the New England Region 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 the New England region, there were 219 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 181 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in library and information science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular library and information science programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Master’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the New England Region

1

Simmons University
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 20% overall quality in New England

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 116 masters’s library and information science degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at Simmons University

2

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Master’s. University of Rhode Island is a public institution located in Kingston, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 45 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full University of Rhode Island Library & Information Science Report

3

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in the New England Region for a Master’s list. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library and information science degrees to 20 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Library & Information Science at SCSU

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science

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

Footnotes

• *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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