by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 New England region, there were 387 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,275 and $22,333 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree library science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Augusta. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region list. Augusta, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s library science degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Connecticut State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, this medium-sized public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s library science students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Library Science at Southern Connecticut State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bennington College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region. Bennington is a small school located in Bennington, Vermont that handed out 0 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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