2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the Rocky Mountains 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 114 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,237 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 79 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in library science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular library science programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Library Science in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

#4 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Denver. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s. Located in Denver, Colorado, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 45 diplomas to qualified masters’s library science students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Library Science at DU

2

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado

#18 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Library Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is a large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 34 masters’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.