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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the New England Region” ranking.
Library & Information Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 6,077 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 271 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in library & information science.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree library and information science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Simmons University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the New England Region. Simmons University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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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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