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

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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 Southeast region, there were 1,390 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,990 and $22,165 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern Mississippi is a fairly large public school situated in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It awarded 30 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Library Science at University of Southern Mississippi

2

Emory and Henry College
Emory, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory and Henry College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the Southeast Region. Emory & Henry College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Emory, Virginia. It awarded 0 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Library Science at Emory and Henry College

• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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

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