2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Library & Information Science is the 124th most popular major in the country with 5,403 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, library and information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,496 and had an average of $36,654 in loans still to pay off.

Across Minnesota, there were 34 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,800 and $40,750 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,396 and $40,953 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality library and information science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the library and information science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota master’s degree library science students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in Minnesota

#1

St Catherine University

Saint Paul, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$17,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$46,407 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Catherine University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota list. St Catherine University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It awarded 34 masters’s library science degrees in 2019-2020.

St. Kate’s also made our “Best Library & Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at St Catherine University are $17,400.

Read more about Library & Information Science at St Catherine University

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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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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