2022 Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 118 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality library and information science programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree library science students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income $30-$48k)

#1

The University of Arizona Global Campus

San Diego, California

#1 in overall quality

$20,998 Average Net Price

$25,426 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Library Science Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Arizona Global Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. UAGC is a large private for-profit school situated in San Diego, California. It awarded 51 bachelors’s library science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAGC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Library & Information Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend The University of Arizona Global Campus is $20,998 for bachelor’s degree library science students whose families make $30-$48k.

Full UAGC Library & Information Science Report

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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