Best Library & Information Science Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Library & Information Science Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Library & Information Science School for Your Doctor's Degree

The library and information science doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality library and information science program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to library & information science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other library & information science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized library & information science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for library & information science students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Sadly , we did not have sufficient info to make a ranking of the quality colleges for library & information science in the United States. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer library & information science and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Library & Information Science by Region

View the Best Library & Information Science Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Library and Information Science

One of 3 majors within the Library & Information Science area of study, Library & Information Science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Diliff. More about our data sources and methodologies.