2022 Best Value Colleges for School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist in Maryland (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist is the 741st most popular major in the country with 330 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maryland, there were 22 school librarian/school library media specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent school librarian/school library media specialist programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the school librarian/school library media specialist program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist in Maryland (With Aid)

#1

McDaniel College

Westminster, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$18,182 Average Net Price

$36,850 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend McDaniel College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Schools in Maryland For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Westminster, Maryland, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 22 degrees to qualified ’s school librarian/school library media specialist students in 2019-2020.

McDaniel not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Schools in Maryland” list. It costs about $18,182 for maryland school librarian/school library media specialist students with aid per year to attend McDaniel.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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• Best Value Colleges for School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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