2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in library and information science. That schools that top this list have a program in library and information science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Southeast Region

1

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Southern Miss is a public institution located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Library & Information Science at University of Southern Mississippi

2

Emory and Henry College
Emory, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory and Henry College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Emory & Henry College is located in Emory, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s library science degrees to qualified students.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at Emory & Henry College

• Most Focused Bachelor’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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