2023 Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Mississippi

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 “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Mississippi” 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 Mississippi, there were 120 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

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Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Mississippi”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Library & Information Science in Mississippi

1

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#5 overall quality in Mississippi

$39,480 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,080 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Mississippi list. This fairly large school is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and it awarded 119 ’s library and information science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at Southern Miss

2

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

#13 overall quality in Mississippi

$27,307 Average Early-Career Earnings

$11,910 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Library and Information Science Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a medium-sized school located in Perkinston, Mississippi that handed out 1 ’s library and information science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

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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

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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