2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in Pennsylvania

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Library & Information Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 6,077 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 309 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 294 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,037 and $44,515 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 4 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science in Pennsylvania

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Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#12 overall quality in Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drexel University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania list. Drexel University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 58 masters’s library and information science degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Drexel University Library & Information Science Report

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Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Kutztown, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania. This medium-sized school is located in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 11 masters’s library and information science degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

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University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#9 overall quality in Pennsylvania

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this large public school awarded 65 diplomas to qualified masters’s library and information science students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Library & Information Science at University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

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

Footnotes

• *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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