by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 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 “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in library science. To top this list, a school must have a successful library science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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 “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree library science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this fairly large public school awarded 30 degrees to qualified bachelors’s library science students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Library Science at University of Southern Mississippi
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory and Henry College landed the #2 spot on the list. Emory & Henry College is a small school located in Emory, Virginia that handed out 0 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Library Science at Emory and Henry College
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