2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the Middle Atlantic Region

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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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,099 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,810 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in library science. That schools that top this list have a program in library science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Kutztown, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This medium-sized school is located in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Library Science at Kutztown University

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Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Clarion, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clarion University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Clarion, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s library science degrees to 163 students in 2020-2021.

Full Clarion University of Pennsylvania Library Science Report

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to John Cummings.