2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Mississippi

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Library Science is the 35th most popular major in the country with 6,538 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Mississippi, there were 120 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in library science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their library science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Mississippi”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Library Science in Mississippi

1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

#13 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a medium-sized school located in Perkinston, Mississippi that handed out 1 associates’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Itawamba Community College
Fulton, Mississippi

#12 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Itawamba Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Mississippi. Itawamba Community College is located in Fulton, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s library science degrees to qualified students.

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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

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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