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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Library & Information Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 6,077 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,004 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in library & information science. That schools that top this list have a program in library & information science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The library and information science 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Far Western US Region”.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree library and information science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Arizona Global Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Far Western US Region. The University of Arizona Global Campus is a large school located in San Diego, California that handed out 35 bachelors’s library and information science degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 The University of Arizona Global Campus Library & Information Science Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a public institution located in Seattle, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 152 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Library & Information Science Report
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Notes and References
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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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