2023 Most Popular Colleges for Library Science in Kentucky

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Kentucky, there were 127 library science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,172 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Kentucky” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in library science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in library science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Kentucky

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky library science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Library Science in Kentucky

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

#1 overall quality in Kentucky

$43,675 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,607 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Kentucky list. UK is a large public school situated in Lexington, Kentucky. It awarded 99 ’s library science degrees 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 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Library Science at University of Kentucky

2

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky

#7 overall quality in Kentucky

$37,898 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,200 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Kentucky University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Library Science Major in Kentucky. WKU is a fairly large school located in Bowling Green, Kentucky that handed out 28 ’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Western Kentucky University Library Science Report

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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.