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Ranked Colleges
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 44 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 42 school librarian/school library media specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in school librarian/school library media specialist. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their school librarian/school library media specialist program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The school librarian/school library media specialist school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Southwest Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree school librarian/school library media specialist students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Central University landed the #1 spot on the list. ECU is a public institution located in Ada, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 31 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.
Full East Central University School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Southwest Region. This fairly large school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 11 masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Central Oklahoma School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Report
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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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