2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 6,538 people earned their degree in library science, making the major the 35th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, library science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,990 and had an average of $24,604 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 114 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,237 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 20 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,822 and $20,997 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in library science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in library science.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Library Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

College of Southern Idaho
Twin Falls, Idaho

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Southern Idaho. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Twin Falls, Idaho is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s library science degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Library Science at College of Southern Idaho

2

Pueblo Community College
Pueblo, Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pueblo Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Pueblo Community College is located in Pueblo, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 associates’s library science degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Library Science at Pueblo Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Library 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.

Credits

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