2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in Pennsylvania

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Pennsylvania, there were 269 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,202 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in Pennsylvania

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Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Kutztown, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

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Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Clarion, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clarion University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania list. Clarion University is a small school located in Clarion, Pennsylvania that handed out 163 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Library & Information Science at Clarion 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

• *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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