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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2021-2022, 408 people earned their degree in school librarian/school library media specialist, making the major the 717th most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 129 school librarian/school library media specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 127 school librarian/school library media specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in school librarian/school library media specialist. That schools that top this list have a program in school librarian/school library media specialist in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend McDaniel College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. McDaniel College is located in Westminster, Maryland and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 18 masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St. John Fisher College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Rochester, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees to 10 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Vincent College landed the #3 spot on the list. Latrobe, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Buffalo. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University at Buffalo is a large school located in Buffalo, New York that handed out 32 masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Albany. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Albany, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees to 31 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Queens College ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Queens College is a public institution located in Queens, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Syracuse University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, coming in at #7. Syracuse is a private not-for-profit institution located in Syracuse, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 23 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *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.
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