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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Library & Information Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 6,077 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Massachusetts, there were 167 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 165 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,127 and $43,515 respectively.
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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The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts master’s degree library and information science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Simmons University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in Massachusetts list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s library and information science degrees to 165 students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%.
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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%.
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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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