2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in Kentucky

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Library & Information Science is the 121st most popular major in the country with 5,950 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Kentucky, there were 127 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,172 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 127 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,023 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in library and information science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their library and information science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Kentucky

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in Kentucky

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

#1 overall quality in Kentucky

$38,660 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Kentucky. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 99 degrees to qualified masters’s library science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Library & Information Science at University of Kentucky

2

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky

#7 overall quality in Kentucky

$43,683 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Kentucky University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Kentucky. WKU is a fairly large public school situated in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It awarded 28 masters’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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