2025 Best Library & Information Science Schools in California
1College in California
845Library Science Degrees Awarded
$49,154Avg Early-Career Salary
Library & Information Science is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #121 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
There was only one school in California to review for the 2025 Best Library & Information Science Schools in California ranking.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Library & Information Science Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Library & Information Science in California
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the library science degree levels they offer.
The University of Arizona Global Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in library & information science. UAGC is a very large private for-profit university located in the city of San Diego.
Soon after graduating, library science degree recipients usually earn an average of $29,163 in the first five years of their career.
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).
