2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 87 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,237 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 79 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in library and information science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in library and information science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree library science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

#4 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

$42,492 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Denver. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. DU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 45 masters’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at DU

2

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado

#18 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

$55,981 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s. CU Anschutz is located in Denver, Colorado and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 34 masters’s library science degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at CU Anschutz

• Most Popular Master’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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