2024 Best Library & Information Science Schools in the New England Region
2Colleges in the New England Region
368Library Science Degrees Awarded
$33,275Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in library & information science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #121 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for library & information science students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 368 degrees in library & information science to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Library & Information Science Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Library & Information Science in the New England Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the library science degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat Simmons University if you wish to pursue a degree in library & information science. Located in the city of Boston, Simmons is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.
Those library & information science students who get their degree from Simmons University make $9,509 more than the typical library science student.
University of Rhode Island is a great choice for students interested in a degree in library & information science. URI is a large public university located in the suburb of Kingston.
Degree recipients from the library & information science major at University of Rhode Island earn $9,296 more than the standard graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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