2023 Best Value Library Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Library Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking.

Library & Information Science is the 121st most popular major in the country with 5,950 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, library and information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,949 and had an average of $27,472 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 368 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,275 and $22,333 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Library Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in library and information science. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent library and information science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the library and information science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Library Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Library Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region

1

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$13,601 Average Net Price

$44,926 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 in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 46 ’s library science degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at URI, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Library & Information Science Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Rhode Island is $13,601 for new england region library science students whose families make $30-$48k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at URI

2

Simmons University
Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$23,753 Average Net Price

$55,531 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Simmons University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Library Science Schools in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s library science degrees to 273 students in 2020-2021.

Simmons not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Library & Information Science Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Simmons University is $23,753 for new england region library science students whose families make $30-$48k.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Simmons University Library & Information Science Report

• Best Value Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income $30-$48k)

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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