Best Library & Information Science Master’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

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

The library science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality library science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on library & information science students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of library & information science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt library & information science students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 colleges for library & information science students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

Regrettably , we don't have enough data to make a ranking of the quality schools for library & information science in the Plains States Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer library & information science and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Library & Information Science rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Library & Information Science ranking.

Best Library & Information Science Colleges by State

Explore the best library & information science schools for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	193	105
Minnesota	174	33
Iowa	154	42
Kansas	149	162

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Library & Information Science Related Rankings by Major

Library & Information Science is one of 2 different types of Library Science programs to choose from.

Library Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Library & Information Science	375

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.