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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Library & Information Science is the 134th most popular major in the country with 5,696 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Illinois, there were 76 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in library and information science. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in library and information science.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Illinois” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Illinois”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dominican University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Illinois. Dominican U is a small school located in River Forest, Illinois that handed out 66 ’s library and information science degrees in 2020-2021.
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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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 Dominican U
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Chicago State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Illinois. CSU is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 ’s library and information science degrees to qualified students.
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.
Read full report on Library & Information Science at CSU
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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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