2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Library & Information Science is the 124th most popular major in the country with 5,403 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 the New England region, there were 355 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,833 and $33,434 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 318 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in library and information science. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,798 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 33 masters’s library science degrees in 2019-2020.

URI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Library & Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at University of Rhode Island

#2

Simmons University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$21,698 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,047 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #2 spot on the list. Simmons University is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 272 masters’s library science degrees in 2019-2020.

Simmons did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Library & Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Simmons University are $21,698, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Simmons Library & Information Science Report

• 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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