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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Tennessee, there were 140 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Tennessee
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Tennessee”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Tennessee list. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s library science degrees to 106 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at UT Knoxville
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Trevecca Nazarene University landed the #2 spot on the list. TNU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 9 ’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at Trevecca Nazarene University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Middle Tennessee State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Tennessee. Middle Tennessee State University is a large school located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee that handed out 20 ’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Middle Tennessee State University Library & Information Science Report
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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
- *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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