2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k

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 “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 5,403 people earned their degree in library and information science, making the major the 124th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, library and information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,496 and had an average of $36,654 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 17 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,800 and $40,084 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,195 and $40,792 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great library and information science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the library and information science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii master’s degree library science students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income $0-$30k) in Hawaii

#1

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#1 in overall quality

$34,550 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$44,356 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in Hawaii For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #1 spot on the list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s library science degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa also took the #1 spot in our “Best Library & Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in Hawaii” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UH Manoa are $34,550, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Library & Information Science at UH Manoa

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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