Best Library & Information Science Master’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

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

Your choice of library & information science for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to library & information science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other library & information science students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for library & information science to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized library & information science related body.

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

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

On account of missing data, we could not provide you with the library & information science quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer library & information science and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Library & Information Science rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Library & Information Science ranking.

Best Library & Information Science Colleges by State

Explore the best library & information science colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	395
Pennsylvania	248	255
Maryland	193	103
New Jersey	188	194
District of Columbia	154	36

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Rankings in Majors Related to Library Science

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

Library Science Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Library & Information Science	956

Majors Similar to Library Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Library & Archives Assisting	12

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.