2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 5,950 people earned their degree in library and information science, making the major the 121st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, library and information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,949 and had an average of $27,472 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,336 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,694 and $22,165 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in library and information science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in library and information science.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree library science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Southeast Region

1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a public institution located in Perkinston, Mississippi. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Library & Information Science at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

2

Mountwest Community and Technical College
Huntington, West Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mountwest Community and Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. MCTC is a small school located in Huntington, West Virginia that handed out 0 associates’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at MCTC

• Most Focused Associate 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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