2022 Best Vallue Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making Over $110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making Over $110k” 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 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 Vallue Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making Over $110k

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Library & Information Science (Income Over $110k) in the New England Region

#1

Simmons University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$21,698 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,047 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Simmons University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making Over $110k. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s library science degrees to 272 students 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. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Simmons are $21,698.

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#2

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$43,798 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Vallue Library Science Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #2 spot on the list. URI is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 33 masters’s library science degrees in 2019-2020.

URI also took the #2 spot in our “Best Library & Information Science Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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

• Best Value Master’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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