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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 6,077 people earned their degree in library & information science, making the major the 134th most popular in the United States.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 159 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 157 library & information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,612 and $39,317 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in library & information science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their library & information science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Denver. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Denver, Colorado, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 93 diplomas to qualified masters’s library and information science students in 2021-2022.
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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at University of Denver
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Library and Information Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is located in Denver, Colorado and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 64 masters’s library and information science degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
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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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