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2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Southeast Region

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Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” 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 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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular library and information science programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate

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

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Out of the 1 schools in the Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s library science degrees to 121 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of South Carolina - Columbia Library & Information Science Report

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