2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the New England 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 New England region, there were 387 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,275 and $22,333 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 317 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree library science students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the New England Region

1

Simmons University
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 20% overall quality in New England

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #1 spot on the list. Simmons is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 252 masters’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Library Science at Simmons University

2

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region list. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, this fairly large public school handed out 45 degrees to qualified masters’s library science students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full URI Library Science Report

3

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Connecticut State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library Science Major in the New England Region. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library science degrees to 20 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Library Science at Southern Connecticut State University

• Most Focused Master’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.