2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania” 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 Pennsylvania, there were 284 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,202 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 255 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in library science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in library science.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in Pennsylvania

1

Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Clarion, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clarion University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania. Clarion, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library science degrees to 159 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#12 overall quality in Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drexel University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s library science degrees to 54 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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3

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 #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania. Kutztown, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library science degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.

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4

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#9 overall quality in Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in Pennsylvania list. This large school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 33 masters’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Full University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus Library Science Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
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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.