Best Library & Information Science Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Library & Information Science Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Library & Information Science School for Your Doctor's Degree

The library science doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality library science program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on library & information science students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of library & information science students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for library & information science to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized library & information science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for library & information science students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Due to missing data, we could not show you the library & information science quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer library & information science and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Library & Information Science by Region

View the Best Library & Information Science Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Library & Information Science Related Rankings by Major

One of 2 majors within the Library Science area of study, Library & Information Science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Library Science Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Library & Information Science	11

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Diliff. More about our data sources and methodologies.