2022 Best Vallue Library Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Library Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Southwest region, there were 910 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,943 and $30,469 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the library and information science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Library Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree library science students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income Over $110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Woman's University

Denton, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$14,962 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Library Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas Woman’s University is a fairly large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 1 doctorate’s library science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at TWU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Library & Information Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Woman’s University are $14,962.

Read more about Library & Information Science at TWU

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income Over $110k)

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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