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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 Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist is the 717th most popular major in the country with 408 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 28 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 8 school librarian/school library media specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in school librarian/school library media specialist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in school librarian/school library media specialist.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree school librarian/school library media specialist students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lindenwood University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region list. Lindenwood University is located in Saint Charles, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 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 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Lindenwood University School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Cloud State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region list. Saint Cloud, Minnesota 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 4 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%.
Read more about School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist at Saint Cloud State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the #3 spot on the list. Minnesota State Mankato is a fairly large school located in Mankato, Minnesota that handed out 4 masters’s school librarian/school library media specialist 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%.
Read full report on School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist at Minnesota State Mankato
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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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